{"id":6297,"date":"2026-04-19T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:03:02","slug":"side-effects-artemis-ii-astronauts-might-suffer-once-they-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6297","title":{"rendered":"Side effects Artemis II astronauts might suffer once they return to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Once the cheering stops, the pain begins. The Artemis II crew will slam back to Earth at 25,000 mph, survive a blazing fireball, and hit a cold, black ocean in the middle of nowhere. But the real shock comes after the hatch opens\u2014when walking feels impossible, gravity becomes an enemy, and their own bodies suddenly tur\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.info_responsive_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The world will see triumphant faces, waving hands, and the iconic image of astronauts stepping onto the recovery ship. What cameras won\u2019t fully capture is the quiet struggle behind each movement: legs that tremble, vision that swims, and hearts pounding as bodies relearn a force they once stopped feeling. In microgravity, muscles shrink, blood shifts, and the inner ear forgets which way is \u201cdown.\u201d Back on Earth, that forgotten weight slams into them all at once.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761912\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Doctors and specialists close in, not as a formality, but as a lifeline. They guide those first unsteady steps, track every heartbeat, and begin the long work of rebuilding strength atom by atom. For days, even standing can feel like defiance. Yet through nausea, weakness, and exhaustion, the Artemis II crew will fight to adapt again\u2014proving that the hardest part of exploration isn\u2019t always leaving home, but surviving the return.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761906\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the cheering stops, the pain begins. The Artemis II crew will slam back to Earth at 25,000 mph, survive a blazing fireball, and hit a cold, black ocean in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}