Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

StarTalk Radio

20-09-2024 • 45 mins

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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