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Space travel

	What happens to a cosmonaut's body when he or she boldy goes where the rest of us can only dream of following? Technology has in many ways outstripped the much slower evolution of the human body, and this is never so apparent as when one of us dares take on the final frontier.

01. Countdown preparations As the countdown nears for cosmonauts to blast off into space, they will undergo the final physical preparations before lift-off. Read	02. The body in space What happens to the body when someone is orbiting earth? Read
03. Body in space: Day 3 What happens to a cosmonaut's body in zero gravity during third day in space? Read	04. Body in space: Day 4 What happens to a cosmonaut's body during his fourth day in space? Read
05. Body in space: Day 5 What happens to a cosmonaut on the fifth day in space? Read