A Lunar Base in Space Can Be Used to Help You Survive

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NASA is researching drugs that could mitigate the effects of weak gravity, their ideas to make spacesuits out of a type of plastic. A lunar base in space can be used to help you survive. There are actually some caves on the moon that are caused by lava flows that collapsed. And so in theory, you could go under these domed, kind of, cave areas and burrow underneath the lunar soil.

NASA just launched the Artemis program, a series of missions that will eventually take humans back to the moon, and beyond. But can humans actually survive in space long-term?

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