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Secret weapon for space travelers: A steady diet of TV?

  • Written by Jan Van den Bulck, Professor of Media Psychology, University of Michigan
imageDeep-space journeys will have plenty of downtime.studiostoks/Shutterstock.com

No one knows for sure what a long-range space journey will be like for the people on board. Nobody in the history of our species has ever had to deal with the “Earth-out-of-view” phenomenon, for instance. How will it feel to live in close quarters with a small...

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