In this episode of Space 3D, the co-hosts speak with John Charles of NASA’s Johnson Space Center about the medical capabilities of the space program. Topics covered include women in space, cosmic hygiene, the importance of posture, astronaut exercise equipment, physiologic adaptations of age and more!

This is part 1 of our interview with Dr. John Charles.

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John Charles, PhD was a child of the early space age, and clearly remembers playing “John Glenn” while lying on his back in the dusty playground of his elementary school, in the launch posture with his legs up and over some handrails. A scientific interest in weightlessness led him to a career in the space life sciences, and a lifelong fascination with spaceflight in general has kept him in the library stacks and on-line archives researching little ...