{"id":502287,"date":"2018-07-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6ac1aff24fb02281ee174d294f91ef1a"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:00:00","slug":"horizons-science-airway-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=502287","title":{"rendered":"Horizons science \u2013 airway monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/horizons_science_airway_monitoring\/17618808-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_science_airway_monitoring_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn space, there is no such thing as waiting for the dust to settle. Rather than drifting to the ground, dust particles float about continuously and can irritate eyes and lungs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy recording how much nitrogen oxide he exhales in space as part of the Airway Monitoring experiment, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is helping researchers understand how to monitor, diagnose and treat lung conditions like asthma here on Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe findings of this monitoring will also be crucial to exploring the Moon and even Mars \u2013 where dust is considered even more toxic and must be carefully managed for astronauts\u2019 health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Airways Monitoring experiment has been underway since 2015. Later in the Horizons mission Alexander will repeat the experiment in the reduced pressure of the airlock.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Alexander and the Horizons mission on social media via <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\/<\/a> and read the latest on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/\">http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/horizons_science_airway_monitoring\/17618808-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_science_airway_monitoring_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIn space, there is no such thing as waiting for the dust to settle. Rather than drifting to the ground, dust particles float about continuously and can irritate eyes and lungs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy recording how much nitrogen oxide he exhales in space as part of the Airway Monitoring experiment, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is helping researchers understand how to monitor, diagnose and treat lung conditions like asthma here on Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe findings of this monitoring will also be crucial to exploring the Moon and even Mars &ndash; where dust is considered even more toxic and must be carefully managed for astronauts&rsquo; health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Airways Monitoring experiment has been underway since 2015. Later in the Horizons mission Alexander will repeat the experiment in the reduced pressure of the airlock.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Alexander and the Horizons mission on social media via <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\/<\/a> and read the latest on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/\">http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502287","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502288,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502287\/revisions\/502288"}],"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=502287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}