Space Does Something Strange to Astronauts' Sense of Gravity

Tamara Ceaikovski

When astronauts come back down to Earth, it can take a moment to adjust to the return of gravity. A viral video of NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn cursing gravity as he tries to place a pen mid-air was actually a parody. But it's not too far off what really happens to astronauts after prolonged time in space, as a new study almost 20 years in the making explains. Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and the Basque Foundation for Science in Spain compared the way

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