The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is offering ₦6,840,000 ($19,000) to volunteers prepared to spend 60 consecutive days lying in bed. As part of a new research program looking at artificial gravity.
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While partnering with the space agency, All 24 volunteers will spend 60 days in bed in the envihab facility at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Cologne.
The research, titled ‘Agbresa’, short for Artificial Gravity Bed Rest, will investigate how effective countermeasures can be implemented against bone and muscle atrophy when humans are set in a weightless environment. Also exploring the possibilities of artificial gravity, and how it can have a positive impact.
