For 25 years astronauts have been living and working on the International Space Station for several months at a time.
The astronauts have been guinea pigs for what happens to the human body in microgravity: muscles and bones get weaker, DNA changes and the eyes can be damaged.
Sky’s Thomas Moore visits a lab in Newcastle where scientists simulate what it is like to walk on the moon.
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