American scientist Michael Delp from the University of Florida claims that more than 43% of the Apollo program participants who flew around the Earth's satellite or landed on the lunar surface died from heart attacks and other heart and vascular problems.
According to Delp, the Apollo astronauts are experiencing a mysterious series of heart and vascular problems, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, the mortality rate of program participants from heart attacks and other problems with the heart and blood vessels is four to five times higher than the mortality rate from these factors among other astronauts and NASA employees who have not flown into space.
Last year, Delp and his colleagues found that arteries and veins lose their ability to expand and contract normally in space, leading to a rush of blood to the brain or problems with its normal oxygen supply, as a result of which the Apollo astronauts allegedly periodically fell and lost their balance. on the moon, according to Scientific Reports.
The article claims that Delp has found a potential cause for the development of "lunar sickness."
The study of the health status of astronauts and the presence of traces of atherosclerosis in the arteries of most Apollo men led the scientist to the idea that space radiation, which "bombarded" NASA ships during their journey to the Moon and back to Earth, could be to blame for the development of such problems.
He tested this idea by placing several mice in a chamber that maintained conditions similar to those in which astronauts lived on flights to the moon.
After six months of living in such a chamber, Delp said, the mice developed heart and vascular problems, as did the Apollo participants.
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