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Originally Posted by alxian
Quick question:
What's your opinion on chidlren being trained as astronauts (being sent up into space very early so they have a greater affinity with microgravity) and doing their studies in space.
Wouldn't children get used to being in microgravity faster than adults? Living and working in a 3D environment without a gravity bias?
Have their been any studies on how quickly/well children adapt to microgravity?
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You will be hard pressed to find much data on children and microgravity, since children and scientific research are a bit like oil and water due to protection and welfare issues.
You may wish to search to see if any children have ridden the vomit comet and see if there is a consensus on their ability to acclimate relative to an older human there.
Also, if you really want to look at space, you can look into the life science studies which have been done in orbit with rats. More at that at the following:
Life Into Space Volumes 1, 2, & 3
Last, you can form some general hypotheses by learning more about human biology and comparing the data with that here on Microgravity:
NATURAL AND INDUCED ENVIRONMENTS
NATURAL AND INDUCED ENVIRONMENTS
Enjoy.
