Sunday, December 16, 2012

Space station to get new insomnia-fighting light bulbs
[ Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:51:01 GMT ]

Astronaut John Glenn (right) gets bloodwork done in his bunk aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1998. About half of astronauts require sleep medication at some point during their flights, NASA said.NASA plans a new weapon in the fight against space insomnia: high-tech light-emitting diodes to replace the fluorescent bulbs in the U.S. section of the International Space Station.


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