Will suspended animation help NASA to send humans to distant planets?

It is just a concept, not a reality yet. Unless we figure out how to 'Fold Space', interstallar travel will never happen without something like Susp. Anim, otherwise the astronauts would 'Go Crazy' due to the length of the journey, plus they'd all die do to old age before they ever reached another galaxie.

One idea involves Cryogenics; freezing, then thawing out later. The problem with living tissue is that when we freeze it, jagged crystals form which destroy cellular structure such that it cannot survive, or rehabilitate after thawing.

Maybe some other form of suspended animation that does not involve freezing?

Keep working on it!

i don't think that you will need that for this solar system. the only planet that we will send man/woman to is mars, and it is not too far or long of a trip. Nothing in the outer solar system that man needs to go to that machine can not do more efficiently. If you are talking about a planet around another star, then that is a different story, but I don't think so. If we were to send people to another star, we would have to send so many people , that their job on the way to that other star, would be the same as if they were on Earth. Get up in the morning, go to work, come home to your spouse, have dinner, go to bed, make babies. It will take so long to get to that other star, that the children of the astronauts that started the voyage, will have to finish the voyage , if not , the grandchildren or the great , or great great grandchildren. Right now it is sci-fi. But later when our technology catches up with us, we might figure out that it will take 20 generations to get to the nearest star, and a little bit more to get to gliese 581 , which is a lot further.

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Suspended animation would help NASA to send humans to distant plantets. You have to look it is going to take 9 years for New Horizions to reach Pluto, so just look at how long interstellar travel would take.

It's too insane. It will never happen. After an extended time your muscles would be so stiff and you'll never be able to move again, not to mention what it would do to your brain as well.

Your body would start to produce toxins and start rotting from the inside out. You would be throwing your life away.

yes, if we already have the technology for that stuff. just imagine bringing with you all the food requirements for a distant space trip that would last for almost 10 years.

it could IF we can protect the travelers from the bombardment of all that radiation - that our atmosphere does here on Earth