VR could help astronauts avoid seasickness during splashdown and recovery

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VR could help astronauts avoid seasickness during splashdown and recovery
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By Elizabeth Howell
published about 8 hours ago

"We're increasing this whole bubble of space exploration."

VR could help astronauts avoid seasickness during splashdown and recovery

"We're increasing this whole bubble of space exploration."

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Graduate student Taylor Lonner is among the team studying aspects of motion sickness, and says the astronauts will need all the help they can get when they come back to Earth. This is true not only of Orion, but of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft regularly used for splashdowns after International Space Station missions.
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"We're increasing this whole bubble of space exploration," Lonner said, in reference to the numbers of non-professionals flying into space. "But people aren't going to want to do that if they're just going to be miserable when they get to microgravity and when they return to Earth."

The team also presented its results in February at NASA's annual Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop in Galveston, Texas.