Department of Microbiology, L J School of Applied Sciences, LJ University, Ahmadabad, India
Review Article
A Review: The Effect of Microgravity on Gut Beneficial Bacteria
Author(s): Maulesh Gadani*, Kedar Ahire and Viral Shukla
After decades of relatively quiet periods since the Apollo missions, human space travel has once again come to the forefront with many private and few government agencies vying for space tourism and space travel. India and China are planning long duration human space missions. America is planning a manned lunar mission followed by a Mars mission. Billionaires like Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have already flown to space and experienced microgravity while Elon Musk has gone public with his Mars plans. We are also searching for another earth like planet for our second home. Interplanetary missions and space tourism are likely to become common in the coming few decades. This will raise the important question of maintaining the health of space travelers while in the hazardous environment of space namely radiation, microgravity, the confined environment inside spacecraft, isolation, .. View More»