Aging in Outer Space with Dr. Susan Bailey

Professor Susan Bailey from CSU's Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences joins us to discuss her project with the NASA Twins Study, an investigation of identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly that aims to identify factors in spaceflight that influence human health in preparation for human space exploration to the Moon or Mars.Bailey tells us what her study reveals about aging in space, particularly how telomeres, the caps of our chromosomes, change with spaceflight — and what this means for aging on Earth and in orbit.Read about Bailey's preliminary findings on telomeres in space here.Find the Twins Study' scientists first publication in Science here.Read the latest update on "The Biology of Spaceflight," a package of papers from 200 NASA Twins Study investigators, published in Cell Press in November 2020, here.