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Articles on Astronaut health

October 31, 2025

Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits

Damian Bailey, University of South Wales and Angelique Van Ombergen, 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.

July 17, 2024

Julia Low, RMIT University; Grace Loke Mei Ing, RMIT University; Ian Peake, RMIT University; Jayani Chandrapala, RMIT University, and Lisa Newman, RMIT University

Think plane food tastes bland? It’s even worse 100km up – and hungry astronauts need a solution

February 21, 2024

Nick Kanas, University of California, San Francisco

Can astronauts spend prolonged time in close quarters millions of miles from Earth without killing each other?

Nick Kanas
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Newman
Senior Lecturer in Sensory Science and Nutrition, RMIT University
Ian Peake
Digital Solutions Architect, RMIT University
Grace Loke Mei Ing
PhD Candidate in Food Science, RMIT University
Jayani Chandrapala
Associate Professor, RMIT University
Julia Low
Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Food (Sensory Science), RMIT University
Angelique Van Ombergen
Visiting Professor in Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp; European Space Agency
Damian Bailey
Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales