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Well, we've been staying updated on the two astronauts stuck in space for the last nine months. Barry Wilmore known as Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams are only supposed to be up there for eight days. It ended up being nine months. Usually the maximum stay for astronauts at the International Space Station is six months. So the mission has started to bring them home. They're still at the space station, but be expected to be home on Earth in a matter of days. What does this do to your body? And what will it be like for them to be home? Here to tell us more is camera based astrophysicist Brad Tucker Brad High.

Well, we've been staying updated on the two astronauts stuck in space for the last nine months. Barry Wilmore known as Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams are only supposed to be up there for eight days. It ended up being nine months. Usually the maximum stay for astronauts at the International Space Station is six months. So the mission has started to bring them home. They're still at the space station, but be expected to be home on Earth in a matter of days. What does this do to your body? And what will it be like for them to be home? Here to tell us more is camera based astrophysicist Brad Tucker Brad High.

How's it going.

How's it going.

It's going very well. How's it going to go for them? What's happened to their bodies in space now? Nine months?

It's going very well. How's it going to go for them? What's happened to their bodies in space now? Nine months?

Yeah, as you said, there's a lot of changes that you go into these longer duration missions. Ah, things like your phones. We don't realize it, but you actually lose a lot of bone density in space, and we know that for every six months you spend around the space station, you lose twenty years worth of bone city loss. Yeah, so they'll come back like they have the bones of a sixty or seventy year old, and that's huge, and that doesn't get repaired. It takes a while for your heart to get back to normal because your heart actually adapts to being in space and gets a bit lazy. You know, you have to think about on Earth where you used to our heart pumping against gravity. Well, if you remove it, our heart adapts to that. But then you get back down, your heart can no longer pump enough oxigenated blood to the brain, so you get things like you get faint, and you feel light headed, and you actually can't even stand up without fainting. Your eyeball physically changes its shape in space because of the pressure in your head, so that takes a while to get to normal. Even the physical shape of your brain takes about three years to return to normal. So there's a slew of these things that they'll have to happen when they get back.

Yeah, as you said, there's a lot of changes that you go into these longer duration missions. Ah, things like your phones. We don't realize it, but you actually lose a lot of bone density in space, and we know that for every six months you spend around the space station, you lose twenty years worth of bone city loss. Yeah, so they'll come back like they have the bones of a sixty or seventy year old, and that's huge, and that doesn't get repaired. It takes a while for your heart to get back to normal because your heart actually adapts to being in space and gets a bit lazy. You know, you have to think about on Earth where you used to our heart pumping against gravity. Well, if you remove it, our heart adapts to that. But then you get back down, your heart can no longer pump enough oxigenated blood to the brain, so you get things like you get faint, and you feel light headed, and you actually can't even stand up without fainting. Your eyeball physically changes its shape in space because of the pressure in your head, so that takes a while to get to normal. Even the physical shape of your brain takes about three years to return to normal. So there's a slew of these things that they'll have to happen when they get back.

Wow. Yeah, and how have I helped to do that? Did I have to live in a certain enclave to have this stuff repaired?

Wow. Yeah, and how have I helped to do that? Did I have to live in a certain enclave to have this stuff repaired?

So some of it, some of it kind of just goes back with time. Others they do need treatment. Others like the eyeball and the eye pressure. No one really understands the indicators that will tell you whether it will go back to normal. So some it takes a couple of weeks, some it takes a couple of years for your vision to actually get back to full functional and normal. So there's a lot of these things where they just don't understand. And that's actually where Butcher and Sunny will be interesting as almost guinea pigs to say, to say, because most of the data comes from younger astronauts in their thirties into the early forties, late twenties and or only up there for six months. They have both been into space their late forties early fifties and have been up multiple times, so we'll actually learn a lot from their long exposure and how to potentially treat these things going into the future.

So some of it, some of it kind of just goes back with time. Others they do need treatment. Others like the eyeball and the eye pressure. No one really understands the indicators that will tell you whether it will go back to normal. So some it takes a couple of weeks, some it takes a couple of years for your vision to actually get back to full functional and normal. So there's a lot of these things where they just don't understand. And that's actually where Butcher and Sunny will be interesting as almost guinea pigs to say, to say, because most of the data comes from younger astronauts in their thirties into the early forties, late twenties and or only up there for six months. They have both been into space their late forties early fifties and have been up multiple times, so we'll actually learn a lot from their long exposure and how to potentially treat these things going into the future.

Is there any benefits from being in space for a long time, Like there's a lot of negatives, it seems to me. Are they benefits?

Is there any benefits from being in space for a long time, Like there's a lot of negatives, it seems to me. Are they benefits?

So you get taller, so it's a quick way of growing because your spine stretches, you do eventually lose that. There are some changes that actually your physical age does change in space. They've actually measured this between two identical twins and we're actually to measure at a genetic level a change in aging in space. There's a lot of belief that cancer to tumors in space actually change and multiply differently and as in slower, because they don't have the mechanisms they think due to gravity to do it. So there's actually a lot of work on cancer treatments on the space station because they think it's a quicker way of accelerating it. Now, the reverse also happens, because you're exposed to higher levels of radiation, you do end up with a potential higher level of cancer down the road. So there's just a lot of stuff that goes to the human body in space that it's a huge amount of effort nasal pores into.

So you get taller, so it's a quick way of growing because your spine stretches, you do eventually lose that. There are some changes that actually your physical age does change in space. They've actually measured this between two identical twins and we're actually to measure at a genetic level a change in aging in space. There's a lot of belief that cancer to tumors in space actually change and multiply differently and as in slower, because they don't have the mechanisms they think due to gravity to do it. So there's actually a lot of work on cancer treatments on the space station because they think it's a quicker way of accelerating it. Now, the reverse also happens, because you're exposed to higher levels of radiation, you do end up with a potential higher level of cancer down the road. So there's just a lot of stuff that goes to the human body in space that it's a huge amount of effort nasal pores into.

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Well, if anything, soon he's hair hasn't stopped crying. That's certainly now Donald Trump, Well, Donald said this.

I see the woman with the wild hair and good solid head of hair she's.

I see the woman with the wild hair and good solid head of hair she's.

Got, and he's wondering whether they've all fallen in love. He's really big on the signs.

Got, and he's wondering whether they've all fallen in love. He's really big on the signs.

Brad, thank you for joining us, No worries, take care.

Brad, thank you for joining us, No worries, take care.

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