Astronaut Dave Wolf performing a spacewalk on the Endeavour in July, 2009.

What Space Does to the Human Body

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 6, 2014

New York Times reporter Kenneth Chang talks about how spending time in space affect the human body--from swollen heads to brittle bones to atrophied muscles and more. In his article "Bodies Not Made for Space," Chang looks at how NASA is working to understand these heath effects and solve them.

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