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Prof. Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab, speaks with Blake Burman of NewsNation’s The Hill about how long duration stays in space can affect the human body and how NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will reacclimate to the Earth’s gravity. “Gravity is something when you haven’t been in gravity for 260 days,” says Newman. “Just readapting; it’s going to take a week or two, it takes a month until you really get your motor control back. So just slow adaptation now.”