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Your brain works in space. But when President Kennedy said we’d go to the Moon, we didn’t know that
Would the human brain work in weightlessness?
That is, would astronauts sent into space be able to think–be able to do useful work?
Fifty-eight years into the era of human spaceflight, it seems like an antiquated question, almost silly. But at the dawn of the Space Age, we knew so little about everything that thinking in zero gravity was a serious concern–with good reason. If people couldn’t think in space, spaceflight would be a lot more challenging than it already was.
Would the human brain work in weightlessness?
That is, would astronauts sent into space be able to think–be able to do useful work?
Fifty-eight years into the era of human spaceflight, it seems like an antiquated question, almost silly. But at the dawn of the Space Age, we knew so little about everything that thinking in zero gravity was a serious concern–with good reason. If people couldn’t think in space, spaceflight would be a lot more challenging than it already was.