What Happens to Your Body In Space

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A centrifuge, which many may remember from the famous scene in the James Bond film "Moonraker" when one was used to try to kill 007, may be another means of counteracting the negative effects of zero-gravity.

In real life, NASA is looking at including one of these rotating devices aboard any ship that would go to Mars. Scientists believe that time spent in a centrifuge, which creates gravity, may counteract the negative effects of weightlessness.