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Sleep deficiency is pervasive among astronauts before and during space flight, and the reported incidence of sleep-promoting medication use is 20 times greater than the proportion of Americans ...
Russian astronaut Vasily Tsibliyev hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for 12 days. He was being kept awake on purpose, as part of a study about sleeping on board the space station Mir. On the 13th day, ...