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To Sleep, Perchance to Hibernate
One of the Apollo 13 astronauts naps while floating in an image that was digitally processed from scans made by Roger Ressmeyer from the original flight film. Scientists are testing the use of hydrogen sulfide to place animals, and perhaps human space travelers, into a kind of suspended animation for long distance flights. |
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