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BOILER-PIPE: What this means for future missions to Mars Professor Moore said once the astronauts were integrated back into gravity, it took a while for their brains to work out just how to move [their bodies] around. "They're essentially in a fragile state where their fine motor control is a little bit out, they're having trouble working out where upright is, and they have that reduced capacity to handle multiple competing task requirements," he said.
Chair of the Space Life Sciences Committee of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine, Gordon Cable, said Professor Moore's study had several implications for spacecraft technology that could be very expensive. "If these balance problems can't be resolved, the astronauts may well have to wait three or four days in the lander before activities are undertaken on the planetary surface," Dr Cable said.
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