Plan to Test Induced Hibernation on Animals on the Space Station
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6HN6V)
A trope in science fiction is for advanced space missions to use suspended animation for long space missions. In fiction, they usually assume that suspended animation stops aging. This will be full on cryonics. In reality, we can safely induce a hibernation like state where metabolic processes are slowed. Minimal nutrients and water would be ...