"Rhonda Lea Kirk" wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: Michael Smith wrote:
:
: But going to mars actually requires somebody
: physically small and able to live on smaller
: quantities of oxygen, food, etc.
:
: More women would satisfy this requirement than men,
: so using Grigoryev's own argument it should be
: women going to Mars.
:
: Think 'calcium loss'. I think this affects women
: much more severely than men.
:
:So now we're sending post-menopausal women to Mars?
:
:Seriously, women don't have a higher risk of
steoporosis until after menopause.

That was not my understanding of what the space medicine studies
indicated. Women under zero-g lose calcium more quickly than men do,
as I recall it. Calcium loss is pretty much THE big problem we're
aware of with prolonged exposure to zero-g.

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