Two astronauts to spend a full year on the ISS in 2015, to examine endurance for deep space missions

[alxnotorious]

[QUOTE=Mechanical43;37954620]You would not stop moving as there is no gravity and no air resistance to stop you moving.[/QUOTE]

But there is air in the station to keep the astronauts alive. Therefore, air resistance. I mean, theoretically, you could swim through the air back to safety, but until then you'd be suspended.

[bord2tears]

[QUOTE=mac338;37945607]There are many serious health complications with it, for instance the quite large risk of becoming blind.[/QUOTE]

If you are curious for a formal report on this: [url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22272520[/url]

[Radley]

Now that I read this stuff, I suddenly wonder how the fuck Lev Andropov was able to function in Armageddon. I mean, he was on MIR for 18 months.

[Elecbullet]

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;37955177]But there is air in the station to keep the astronauts alive. Therefore, air resistance. I mean, theoretically, you could swim through the air back to safety, but until then you'd be suspended.[/QUOTE]

Well, there is air resistance, yes, but I sincerely doubt it is enough to disperse a few hundred joules of kinetic energy before you reach the other side of the tiny-ass centrifuge they can afford to bring into space.

[Str4fe]

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;37955177]But there is air in the station to keep the astronauts alive. Therefore, air resistance. I mean, theoretically, you could swim through the air back to safety, but until then you'd be suspended.[/QUOTE]

The air inside the station is spinning with the station, and not causing any friction to its spinning movement.