{"id":358875,"date":"2017-08-15T07:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0d81e805dbcfb1f8ebb437188bc3ff2a"},"modified":"2017-08-15T07:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:10:02","slug":"rodents-help-nasa-take-the-next-step-to-mars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=358875","title":{"rendered":"Rodents help NASA take the next step to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s future deep space exploration \u2013 including to Mars \u2013 is an unprecedented venture in spaceflight, requiring us to tackle challenges we&#8217;ve never faced before. For instance, we know the human body changes significantly while in space, and we&#8217;ll need to find ways to address those effects. NASA is conducting research to learn more about the long-term impact of extended human spaceflight. One experiment that just launched, Rodent Research-9, is contributing to this goal by sending rodents to the International Space Station, to study how a lack of gravity in space affects blood vessels, eyes and joints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s future deep space exploration &ndash; including to Mars &ndash; is an unprecedented venture in spaceflight, requiring us to tackle challenges we&#8217;ve never faced before. For instance, we know the human body changes significantly while in space, and we&#8217;ll need to find ways to address those effects. NASA is conducting research to learn more about the long-term impact of extended human spaceflight. One experiment that just launched, Rodent Research-9, is contributing to this goal by sending rodents to the International Space Station, to study how a lack of gravity in space affects blood vessels, eyes and joints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358876,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358875\/revisions\/358876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}