U.S. astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s next mission will be tucked into the Earth’s environment Tuesday night International Space Station Nine months.
“There are a lot of changes inside their bodies,” Dr. Christopher Mason, a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, told Dr. Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
Dr. Mason is NASA’s twin studiesstudied how the body of astronaut Scott Kelly was affected by the historic 12-month space flight in 2016. Kelly is on his identical twin brother, retired astronaut Senator Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
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“We see changes in gene expression, which is how genes are regulated in their bodies, and usually from almost all tasks, telomeres are a little longer in space, so we expect some of these changes,” Dr. Mason explained.
telomeres, according to The National Institute of Human Genome is the “regional”[s] Repeatable DNA sequences of DNA sequences that are repeated at the end of chromosomes. ”
The astronaut duo has been stranded at the microgravity International Space Station since June. Their mission only lasted for a week after Boeing’s first astronaut flight, but in space forced NASA to bring it Boeing’s Stalinner Return to the empty space.
Mason explains that spending time in space tends to make astronauts temporarily taller and slimmer.
He added: “All of this is at least on some measures…all. Mostly it’s a response to space flight, usually in a few weeks they mostly return to normal. It’s the first few days, when they return to Earth, the most real dynamics.”
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The duo will require “a lot of” physical therapy to limit their bones and muscles, said Jose M. Hernandez, a former NASA astronaut who spent 14 days in space.
He told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday to “Fox & Friends”.
“It will take months to feel normal on Earth.”
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Pilar Arias from Fox News contributed to the report.
