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Astronauts' eyes weaken during long space missions, raising concerns for Mars travel (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think a lunar free return trajectory would be long enough to measure this. Because the moon is so close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Correct. But a lunar free return trajectory is about the limit of what I'd sent unsupervised monkeys on. ;)