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Since most of the physiological problems of long term space travel are caused by being in microgravity has the idea of artificial gravity (or some kind of gravity simulation) ever been considered/ researched?

BTW working at JSC is a dream job, hopefully I'll be around in a few years :)

Are there any drug based treatments being developed to help combat the effects of long term exposure to micro-gravity during space travel?

What more is planned for artificial gravity research?

Last question I promise ! How to you pharmaceutically counteract the effects of radiation? do you somehow shield the DNA molecules to keep them from being altered ?

The signals for gravitational waves were detected last September, but they were just announced. What was LIGO doing during the time in between? BTW Congratulations this is worthy of a Nobel Prize!!!