NASA to market a cure for travel sickness

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It's bad enough to get travel sick on car journeys and boat trips, but did you know that half of astronauts suffer from motion sickness, too?

As there are no sick bags in space, NASA developed a motion sickness drug that helps astronauts to overcome the nausea and dizziness that many experience when they are launched into orbit.

And now, the Daily Mail reports, NASA has signed a deal to market a nasal spray for motion sickness, based on the same super-effective drugs that are used on space missions.

The fast-acting drug called intransal scopolmine, or INSCOP, can be taken as a tablet, a skin patch or injection - but a nasal spray is the most effective way.

NASA is working with California's Epiomed Therapeutics to create the drug but there is not yet any indiction as to when it will be available to the general public or if it will require a prescription.

NASA researcher Lakshmi Putcha, from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said: "NASA and Epiomed will work closely together on further development of INSCOP to optimise therapeutic efficiency for both acute and chronic treatment of motion sickness."

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