A Basque will be the first diabetic of space, where he will try a new insulin
The mountaineer Josu Feijoo, who crowned Everest, rises in September 2009, the future ship 'vss Enterprise' is expected to
EFE - Vitoria - 12/26/2008
The Basque mountaineer Josu Feijoo will become September 2009 in the first diabetic of the world that will go to space, on an orbital trip around the earth, where he will undergo three scientific experiments related to this disease and will prove a new kind of insulin.Euskonauta, as Feijoo himself defines himself in an interview with EFE, has already lent himself on previous occasions as "laboratory guinea pigs" to test new techniques, such as those that allow transmitting blood glucose values to doctors to the doctorsin real time and from anywhere in the world.
This Vitorian has managed to crown Everest (Asia), Elbrus (Europe), McKinley (North America), Vinson Massif (Antarctica) and Kilimanjaro (Africa) and two peaks have left to conquer the seven highest mountains of the continents.But now his child as a child to go to space is about to be fulfilled thanks to the sponsorship of an entrepreneur, of which he does not want to reveal his name at the moment, and an astronaut helmet has already been bought from which he has hit an ikurriña.
It will be in September 2009 when Feijoo will rise aboard the future VSS Enterprise ship, owned by Virgingalactic, which is scheduled to take off from the Mojave desert base, in California (USA) and will reach a height of 135,000 meters.It will move there ten days before the flight to physically prepare for the trip that, in total, will last between four and five hours.Two professional astronauts will teach him how to behave in space although at the moment they have only told him that he should have 65 kilos of weight, a low heart rate and be healthy.
Diabetes at 23 years
18 years ago they detected diabetes - when he was 23 years old - of the most aggressive type, and since then he has to punctuate four times a day.In space it will test a new insulin that has already been experienced on land with animals and diabetic patients, which allows you to "prick" only three times a week, instead of doing it daily.Its effect lasts between 48 and 55 hours and what it is about is to verify whether their qualities are not lost in exterior space
To do this, you will access the ship with high blood glucose values and insulin will not be punctured until it is in space.It will also test a new blood glucose meter with a built -in telemedicine system and every 15 minutes will transmit to the Earth the results of its analysis.The third experiment will be to extract 10 milliliters of blood when it is in space to check if blood proteomic components vary without gravity.
Although he is not afraid of going to space, he has done the vital will "just in case."He says that in the event that the new insulin did not work properly, it has enough margin, until the ship lands, so that its life is not in danger.Feijoo has concluded that going to space and being an astronaut has always been his dream, but what really cares is that he will break "many barriers" that society puts against diabetics.