EFFECTS OF SPACE TRAVEL
Travel Venturing into the environment of space can have negative effects on the human body. ... Additional symptoms include fluid redistribution (causing the "moon-face" appearance typical in pictures of astronauts experiencing weightlessness), loss of body mass, nasal congestion, sleep disturbance, and excess flatulence. Imagine you are strapped into your seat in the space shuttle on the launch pad, ready for liftoff. The countdown comes to an end "5.4.3. 2. 1. Ignition!" The rockets fire, and you feel yourself being pushed into your seat as the shuttle heads into the sky. The push you feel is called G-force. It makes your body feel up to three times heavier than usual. You can get an of what this feels like when you are in an elevator and it starts going up. But when you get into orbit, the G-force stops. Suddenly, you feel you have no weight at all! You become weightless. We call this state zero gravity, or zero g, because it feels as if the earth...