ANU's Emma Tucker, Lex van Loon research prolonged exposure to zero gravity on the cardiovascular system

Steve Evans
Updated August 20 2022 - 11:52am, first published 5:30am
Not Mars but the botanical gardens. Dr Lex van Loon and Dr Emma Tucker at the Red Centre Garden, Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. Picture: Tracey Nearmy/ANU
Not Mars but the botanical gardens. Dr Lex van Loon and Dr Emma Tucker at the Red Centre Garden, Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. Picture: Tracey Nearmy/ANU

Clever mathematicians in Canberra are working out how to keep fit astronauts even fitter when they land on Mars - and unfit rich tourists from collapsing when they go for a spin in space.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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