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Death in space and what will happen to the human body is still a mystery. Photo: ist
JAKARTA – Outer space being a place with a temperature and environment that is very different from Earth. Because of this, quite a few people wonder what will happen to the corpses in space.
Jimmy Wu, Chief Engineer at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, explains that in a low-pressure vacuum, any fluid from the body will turn into gas and blood vessels will burst.
He further said that the remaining water in the body would likely freeze due to the low basic temperature of space, which could reach minus 270.45 C, ultimately causing the body to become dehydrated.
Launching Live Science, Wednesday (21/2/2024), research on the International Space Station (ISS) shows that bacteria can survive in outer space for at least three years. If bacteria are still alive in the body, they will begin to digest it.
Although most of space is very cold, space can also be hot, temperatures on the surface of the ISS can range from minus to 200 C. In even hotter environments decomposition will pollute the planet’s surface.
As a solution to this problem, NASA developed a body bag that can preserve spacecraft remains for 48 to 72 hours, enough time for them to return to Earth from the International Space Station.
As spaceflight ventures farther from Earth, NASA is preparing mission death procedures. The commercial spaceflight industry must also plan how to handle deaths in space, Wu said.
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2024-02-21 14:15:31
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