Two Months Off

Sleep is final frontier for French scientists studying microgravity as they seek 24 men willing to eat and perform all bodily functions in bed for 60 days Wanted: young, fit and healthy men willing to lie on their backs and do absolutely nothing for two months. Wage: €16,000. Researchers at France’s space medical institute are advertising for what could be, quite literally, a dream job. They are seeking volunteers to spend 60 days flat on their back to study the effects of microgravity, a state of virtual weightlessness. [Read more].

• Kim Willsher, Wanted: space volunteers willing to lie in bed for two months – for €16,000, The Guardian, April 4, 2017

A screengrab from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (1968), showing the astronaut David Bowman in his ultimate neoclassical bedroom. Screenshot by Nicholas T. Davis.