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TEDxRiodelaPlata

October 2016

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Cómo un doctor de astronautas capacita al cuerpo para el espacio

What happens to astronauts' bodies when they are in space? Everything from disruptive metabolic changes to loss of muscle mass. In this talk, Víctor Demaría Pesce, a researcher at the European Astronaut Centre, explains how he and others in the field are pushing the envelope on physiological adaptability to ensure that humans can safely travel or even live in space.

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What happens to astronauts' bodies when they are in space? Everything from disruptive metabolic changes to loss of muscle mass. In this talk, Víctor Demaría Pesce, a researcher at the European Astronaut Centre, explains how he and others in the field are pushing the envelope on physiological adaptability to ensure that humans can safely travel or even live in space.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxRiodelaPlata, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Víctor Demaría Pesce

Doctor, dedicated to scientific research at the European Space Agency

Víctor Demaría Pesce es marplatense, médico, dedicado a la investigación científica. Desde hace muchos años vive en Paris y trabaja en el Centro Europeo de Astronautas. Es especializado en estudiar la interface entre el hombre y los ambientes extremos (altitud, micro-gravedad, temperaturas extremas, grandes profundidades). Además es marino, buzo, espeleólogo y aviador. Tomó una parte activa en los programas espaciales de los Estados Unidos, de Europa y de Rusia. Sus experimentos científicos se incluyeron en varios vuelos de los transbordadores estadounidenses, en la estación Mir y en vuelos de las cápsulas Soyuz y Cosmos.

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