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The only catch: You can't get out of bed for 70 days.

NASA is looking for study participants to help with its research into the effects of long-term spaceflight on the human body.

Scientists claims that having people lie in bed for 70 days is the easiest way to study the effects of microgravity on the body without having to opt for the more expensive option: actually sending people to space.

"Watching you will help scientists learn how an astronaut’s body will change in weightlessness during space flight in the future," the agency said in a statement.

Approved bed-rest participants — sorry, couch potatoes, you have to be very healthy to make the cut — will be paid $18,000 for 15 weeks of their time.

After spending two weeks at the Johnson Space Center, where scientists will observe participants' bodies in normal conditions and participating in normal activities, study subjects will move to NASA's Flight Analogs Research Unit (FARU) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where they will spend the next 70 days lying in a bed tilted head-down at a six-degree angle.

Getting out of bed is not an option. A modified shower gurney allows participants to bathe. Meals are delivered to their bedside. Participants can read books, Skype with friends, check Facebook, watch TV and even work — an easy way to boost that work-from-home income?

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