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Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

Update: 2024-09-205
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How close are we to enabling  astronauts to go into deep sleep for long space journeys? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly team up with Ryan Sprenger, Senior Research Scientist at Fauna Bio, to explore whether humans can hibernate like animals do.

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Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, Gary O'Reilly, Ryan Sprenger