Are you someone who will happily spend days sprawled on your sofa watching TV? Or could you sit in the same spot for hours with only a computer game for company? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then the future of human space travel could rest with you. Nasa is recruiting volunteers to lie a bed for 70 days to research the effects of microgravity on the human body. And the study, which is on-going, will give you around £3,137 ($5,000) a month for the pleasure. The study takes place at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston where you stay for two weeks, doing every day activities, so that scientists can monitor your body in normal conditions. |