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The short answer is yes, although I think only adults have been to space thus far, and most adult bodies have stopped growing in a lot of ways. So, we don't know whether weightlessness (or anything else) would affect the growth of a child or teenage body which hasn't stopped growing. You'd have to study those things over a long time to figure it out as well. Hopefully the space station will help us answer some questions.
There are a lot of interesting things that happen to the human body in space though. Here is a site to start you out reading about it: http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/pdf/educator-microgravity_science_stu.pdf
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One little thing to add. According to a book I've got laying around, some people may actually be measurably taller in space because of the lack of compression on their spine.
Correct, people's spines have grown by as much as 4 centimeters due to lack of compression..its also know that even working out people lose on average 1.5% of there bone density due to the constant freefalling note that even in space there is gravity and where the space station is the gravity is almost the same as it is were you stand...the reason satellites and the ISS travel at like 22,000mph is so as they fall they constantly round the earth so they never get any closer..this is called an orbit
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their wants grow with their income
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hair will continue to grow nomater if you razor or cut is it will still continue to grow
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