NASA to Pay $18,500 to Those Willing to Stay in Bed, Read Books, and Watch Films for Two Months

The short-arm centrifuge at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) :envihab facility in Cologne, Germany will be used during the first joint long-term bedrest rest study commissioned by ESA and US space agency NASA to investigate the potential of artificial gravity in mitigating the effects of spaceflight. ESA

NASA is offering volunteers $18,500 to stay in bed, watch TV, and read books for two months to study how artificial gravity impacts the human body and how astronauts may be impacted by prolonged spells in space.

The space agency will select 24 participants, 12 males and 12 females, and the study will involve doing everything lying flat, including going to the toilet, reported the Sun.