NASA Will Pay you $19,000 to Stay in Bed

For new study.

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NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is offering $19,000 to volunteers prepared to spend 60 consecutive days lying in bed. As part of a new research program investigating artificial gravity.

Partnering with the European Space Agency, All 24 volunteers will spend 60 days in bed in the :envihab facility at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Cologne.

The research, entitled ‘Agbresa’, short for Artificial Gravity Bed Rest, will investigate how effective countermeasures can be implemented against bone and muscle atrophy when humans are set in a weightless environment. Also exploring the possibilities of artificial gravity, and how it can have a positive impact.

All 24 volunteers have been found but feel free to try and sign up here.

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