{"id":67300,"date":"2017-03-01T19:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67300"},"modified":"2017-03-01T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T23:45:05","slug":"moon-tourists-risk-rough-ride-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67300","title":{"rendered":"Moon tourists risk rough ride, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurence COUSTAL, Mari\u00ebtte Le Roux
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<\/a>Annoyances on the journey could include unexpected claustrophobic freak-outs, and a disturbed sleep cycle which will translate into heavy jetlag back on home soil (AFP Photo\/Frederic J. BROWN)<\/h5>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paris (AFP) – Non-stop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the Moon may be in for a rough ride even if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

In the week that SpaceX announced it would launch two tourists to skirt Earth’s satellite in 2018, experts agreed the health effects would chiefly be minor and short-lived.<\/p>\n

These are the stakes:<\/p>\n

– Feeling green –<\/p>\n

“Like every single astronaut who goes into space, they’re going to get… very bad motion sickness,” Daniel Grant of the Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine in London, told AFP.<\/p>\n

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