Scott Solomon

I mean, people have been living on space stations since the 1970s, and the International Space Station, the ISS, has been continuously occupied since the year 2000.

So for the entire 21st century so far, somebody has been off Earth.

Right.

So, you know, we are at that point where we don't all live on Earth.

Now, nobody has so far lived their entire lives out in space.

The record for the longest continuous time in space is 437 days.

So a little over a year.

But, yeah, we are regularly sending people out into space and we are.

uh, you know, about to send, um, people deeper into space than anybody has ever gone.

The Artemis two, um, mission, which is set to launch next month is, uh, going to take a crew of four astronauts around the moon and they will actually be traveling farther from earth than any humans have ever gone.

And again, the long-term goal is to return to the moon and then to Mars.

But yeah, I mean, we are at that point where people are spending longer and longer in space.

They're going deeper and deeper into space.

And as you said, there are some known issues that happen, right?

Some known things that happen to our bodies.

And I think it's important that we understand what is going to happen to people as we spend more and more time in space.

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of things.

So anybody that goes to space can expect a few things to happen.

One is that usually people get motion sick.

There's an adjustment period, kind of like when you are on a boat for a lot of folks like me.