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A comment on Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight.

Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by wakon on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:25PM (#19424860)
NASA could send a control group of astronauts to space with NO duties and see if it has any effect on health (relative to those with “jobs”). Space travel is surely stressful, but perhaps the additional pressure of having tight schedules and deliverables is an additional stress?
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by usrusr on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:22PM (#19427531)
Absence of duties, schedules and deliverables can be quite a stress factor as well. I would not be surprised if that control group would end up suffering even more from being locked up in a free-falling can.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by saagarjha on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:31PM (#19426022)
That seems like it would be an extremely expensive experiment.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by JimmyAustin on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:54PM (#19426582)
Make it a rich person, call it space tourism and you could make it profitable.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by freeflight on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:18PM (#19427193)
That makes me think of Richard Garriott [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Spaceflight

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