{"id":74,"date":"2025-08-22T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:46:16","slug":"what-are-the-health-consequences-astronauts-face-when-launching-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/what-are-the-health-consequences-astronauts-face-when-launching-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the health consequences astronauts face when launching into space?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p>Check out the stories by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/03\/20\/metro\/what-are-health-consequences-astronauts-face-when-launching-into-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boston Globe&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/dont-miss\/uri-researcher-nasa-team-up-to-study-health-risks-for-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WPRI<\/a>&nbsp;about Dr. Mortreux&#8217;s NASA-funded research!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video Interview for WPRI:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/video\/video-now-uri-researcher-nasa-team-up-to-solve-astronauts-health-concerns\/8452211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video Interview for Boston Globe Today:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/video\/2023\/05\/16\/multimedia\/video\/boston-globe-today\/bgt-segments\/preventing-atrophy-and-bone-density-loss-in-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2289\/Marie-Mortreux-article-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2289\/Marie-Mortreux-article-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2289\/Marie-Mortreux-article-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2289\/Marie-Mortreux-article-1-364x243.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2289\/Marie-Mortreux-article-1-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Marie Mortreux, a nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab, is researching ways to prevent astronauts from developing muscle and bone weakness.Barry Chin\/Globe Staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the stories by the&nbsp;Boston Globe&nbsp;and&nbsp;WPRI&nbsp;about Dr. Mortreux&#8217;s NASA-funded research! Video Interview for WPRI:&nbsp;Click here&nbsp; Video Interview for Boston Globe Today:&nbsp;Click here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}