Oct 23 1965
From The Space Library
Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief physician for the astronauts, said in an interview with the New York Times that spaceflights had caused subtle, temporary changes in the human body that must be watched with care for possible importance to longer future flights, Measurements of the apparent density of heel and finger bones of the GEMINI IV astronauts, who flew for four days, and the GEMINI V astronauts, after an eight-day flight, had indicated that calcium was being lost, or at least shifted to some other part of the body, "We have really found no gross changes," he said. "In my opinion, we are going to see the body adapt to space flight, You are never going to have the guy's bones turn to jelly so that when he stands on his leg it just goes `pfft,' " (Clark, NYT, 10/23/65, 58)
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