Medicine in space

Tiangong-1 is about to crash towards Earth

Medical care must be provided even during long flights in space Source: YouTube / YouTube / Close Encounters UFO

This week, two American astronauts returned to Earth after 8 months of their involuntarily long stay on a space station. Healthy, it seems, but when you need medical care during such a long trip, how does that work? How is medicine administered in case of zero gravity? Professor Volker Hessel from the University of Adelaide is researching this question.


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Professor Volker Hessel studiert Pflanzen für den Raumflug

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