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by JoeAltmaier 3637 days ago
How about sleeping in a centrifuge? No need for the entire spaceship to spin.
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If it was possible to build a gravity sleep chamber, it's very possible that exposing the human body to gravity and zero-gravity on a daily basis would be put more, not less stress on a body than zero-gravity alone.
That's just a random guess. We already lay down for 8 hours and stand up for 16. My random guess is, our fluids would recover with at least some artificial acceleration and why not when sleeping?
If you intend to replicate the effects of standing, you'd need to sleep standing.
Chris Hadfield says that sleeping in 0g is one of the best bits of being in space.