A NASA job that pays you to sleep: Space agency paying over Rs 15 lakhs for lying in bed for 60 days — check eligibility, requirement

NASA sleep job: NASA is offering volunteers the opportunity to spend two months lying in bed for $18,500 (Rs 15,08,582 approximately). The Artificial Gravity Bed Rest Study (AGBRESA) is initiated at the German Aerospace Center by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Sleeping beds will be located at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, which is a renowned medical research centre. All necessary tasks, including eating, experimenting, and playing, will be carried out while in bed.  

Volunteers will spend a total of 89 days in German Aerospace Center in Cologne, including five days of orientation, rest and astronaut-like physical behaviour, on each side of the 60-day bed-rest period.

The experiment will be carried out to mitigate the negative effects of weightlessness, scientists are going to investigate artificial gravity for the first time.  

The beds will be slanted forward by six degrees to simulate the effect on body fluids felt by astronauts during a flight on a space shuttle.

NASA sleep job: Requirement and eligibility

• 12 male and 12 female volunteers should be between 24-55 to spend 60 days in bed.  
• Participants should have a working knowledge of the German language.
• During the tenure of 60 days, all the volunteers' movement will be restricted to avoid injury to their muscles, tendons, and bones.  
• A large centrifuge will spin a batch of candidates at 30 revolutions per minute, to test blood flow.
• Scientists will tabulate cardiovascular fitness, cognitive abilities, physical strength, and balance of the participants against the control group.