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Valeri Polyakov took a long time to recover after landing, and you don't get a lot of help when you land on mars.

To be fair, you don't need as much help when you land on Mars, because the surface gravity is only 38% of what it is on Earth. You can lose a lot of muscle mass during the flight across before you're unable to stand upon landing.



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