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This is an early description of the loss of muscle mass that takes place over time in zero gravity.
Can anyone think of an earlier reference?
Compare to space sick from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback; see also the description of a medical exoskeleton for people raised in microgravity from A Specter is Haunting Texas (1968) by Fritz Leiber. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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