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Muscle Loss In Space

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We have been sending mankind to space for quite a while now. Thy have helped us discover many things, while there are a lot of positive things we gain from their missions, they have to go through some loss for the mission. Muscle loss was a health concern for Astronauts going on short and long term space missions. We wanted to find out the extent of muscle loss in relation to the duration of the mission. We asked, how much muscle loss would occur after 8 days of weightlessness? We discovered that even during short space missions the human body can still experience moderate muscle loss. Each Astronaut had to have an MRI before and after each space mission. Before they came to the conclusion they did, they found out from someone else that Astronauts
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