Nasa volunteers to spend 60 days in bed for space travel study

If sleeping in is your favourite part of a holiday, this might just be your dream vacation.

In the name of space travel Nasa is looking for volunteers to sleep-in for two months.

They'll even pay you for your time.

The study into gravity's effect on the human body during sustained space travel is due to take place in Cologne, Germany, as a joint project between European Space Agency and Nasa.

While the participants will not actually travel anywhere, the experiment simulates the experience of voyaging to the stars from the comfort of bed.

According to The Independent, sleepy space enthusiasts will be paid €16500 ($27175) each for spending two months in bed.

The 60-day experiment in the makeshift space hotel is looking for 12 male and 12 female volunteers to kip "for space and Earth", as the ESC's motto declares.

The study will be taking place at the German Aerospace Centre the "Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt", or "DLR" for short.

It should be noted that the ability to speak German is a requirement of the programme.

Dream holiday: The study will be taking place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Photo / Maja Hitij, Getty Images

It won't all be Netflix and takeaway deliveries on Nasa though, as the DLR outlines in its mission statement.

In an effort to learn more about the effect of inertia on the human body in confined spaces, the DLR says that participants will be subjected to "cognitive tests and invasive examinations such as muscle tissue biopsies, microdialysis, measurement of electrical muscle activity and regular blood sampling."

"Crewed spaceflight will continue to be important in the future in order to carry out experiments in microgravity, but we must make it as safe as possible for the astronauts," said Hansjörg Dittus of the DLR.