they go on about Nasa or Elon Musks attemp to populate Mars , but i don't think so ,

look how the astronauts are coming back from only a 3 month mission in our orbiting space station , they can barely even walk they need assistance and hospitalization for weeks just to get back to normal , and it takes several to eight months just to get to Mars , what kinda shape with they be in just getting there ? , never mind making it back again , the plans are ambitious but one must be realistic too

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Persephonee · 26-30, F

It doesn't take months of hospitalisation! Yes they require a little assistance but the reason when astronauts return to earth you often see them sitting in little chairs right after getting out of the spacecraft (or you did when they use Russian Soyuz ones) is not because they can't walk, but you do lose a bit of stamina in walking, and after months of living in freefall it can initially be a bit disorientating. (The biggest problem apparently is that returning astronauts forget they can't just let go of something and expect it to stay there, and they drop a lot of things!)

One of the reasons why we have people living in space for months at a time is to build up data on how to look after people living in weightless conditions.

FurryFace · 61-69, M

@Persephonee ha ha expecting it to still be there