21. How long would we be staying in the hotel - a few days, months, or years? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Most stays at the space hotel will be a matter of days. Supplies will have to be brought to the hotel with each trip. For some guests performing scientific research, their hotel stay could be for weeks or even months. It is conceivable in the future that people would actually live in these space stations for extended periods of time, even years. It's a good idea to restrict your visit to one to two weeks, however. This is long enough to let you adapt to weightless conditions, overcome motion sickness and swelling sinuses, and learn to enjoy the many amusing aspects of micro-gravity. At the same time it is short enough that micro-gravity would not seriously affect your body, like making your muscles weak or bones brittle. If you stay longer you will need to exercise two hours every day, and have your health monitored constantly.

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Answer provided by Robert T. Bigelow

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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