NASA space psychology subjects ending 8 months of isolation

[Rhiannon12866]

1. I would be a very poor subject.

When I was in Moscow (USSR 1986), we visited the Exhibition for Economic Achievement - kinda like a permanent World's Fair - and the exhibit we chose was the space pavilion. It was very interesting, they obviously had done a lot early on with space exploration. But then the young female guide described how the cosmonaut had spent so long in space that his muscles had atrophied and needed to be carried off the spacecraft. Just hearing that made me feel kind of woozy and I had to go outside for some air...