Human Guinea Pig to Blast Off With Space Shuttle

Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 11:39 in Astronomy & Space

Aboard the International Space Station, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will down pills, wire himself with sensors, and record how smelly his underwear gets—all in the name of science.

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