ESA astronaut Wubbo Ockels demonstrates the special sleep restraint he developed for the Spacelab-D1 mission. ESA and Italian researchers are studying whether it could be possible to put human astronauts into a state of hibernation for long-duration flights into deep space. Credit: ESA. Click to enlarge.

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