39-year-old cosmic career Dr. Peggy Whitson is a long list of achievements. As he says NASAThe American was the first woman who headed the International Space Station, the first to take 10 space walks and the first commanding private missions. Now he heads the Axiom 4 mission, in which Sławosz Uznański -Wiśniewski participates. The 65-year-old has one more record. She is the oldest woman in space.
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Its form, both physical and mental, is impressive. In Falcon 9 rocket She had to support an interactive touch screen with over 30 indicators, analyze flight parameters on several monitors and remember all the details of several dozen emergency procedures. At an international space station, it embraces dozens of data every day – it monitors over 60 experiments, supports complicated devices and manages the team. How is it possible that he copes so well with all this? After all, many of her peers cannot master a regular TV remote control.
– Whitson shows us what the 65 -year -old brain can do when it is in good shape – laughs Aneta Brzezicka, a professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and a manager of the neuropistic research center. Every day, a psychologist deals with neuroplasticity, i.e. the ability of the brain to create new nerve connections. From space, he quickly brings me to the ground. – Unfortunately, you can't enchant reality. The brain begins to age before thirty. Around 24.25. The first physiological changes begin in the year, for example, the gradual reduction of bark volume, which in most people run similarly. However, these are not neurodegenerative processes in the sense of diseases such as Alzheimer, but the natural effects of maturation of cerebral structures and aging of the body – he explains.