Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits
			
			
		
		By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales
Angelique Van Ombergen, Visiting Professor in Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp; European Space Agency
		
		
		
		
		
			
			Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may help improve life on Earth.
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