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8 Weird Things That Happen To Your Body If You Live In Space For A Year

By Skye Gould, Dave Mosher and Rebecca Harrington
17 Mar 2018, 13:23

In the name of science, former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shoved himself into the top of a rocket, accelerated to 17,500 mph, and fell around Earth for 340 days — nearly an entire year.

The lack of gravity, radiation exposure, Kelly's diet, and other facts of life in orbit affected his body in significant ways — including, as NASA is learning now, even perhaps his genetic blueprint.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/8-weird-things-that-happen-to-your-body-if-you-live-in-space-for-a-year/