November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... a market. The reusability of launchers will have a significant impact in the price of access for long duration flights in microgravity Significant work still needs to be done on different aspects of the supply chain to ease access to the market and...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
... presence of gravity on Earth. The brain consists of four major lobes, the cerebellum, and brain stem. Microgravity responses In microgravity several acute body responses occur that have been well-documented. Most space mission crews experience...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... engineer Fritz Haber and German physicist Heinz Haber. These days parabolic flight is enabling and advancing microgravity research and allowing scientists, engineers, students and even Hollywood ‘actor-nauts’ to experience that most spectacular...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... the curtailment of egg-calcium consumption by a growing quail embryo at the early ovification stages (4th day) in the microgravity environment. However, the differences between the control and flight groups were hardly in evidence by the end...
November 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
... change after being subjected to weightlessness. The ‘dry’ immersion model became central to research aimed at exploring how microgravity affects the motor system First and foremost, weightlessness affects the muscular system. Changes to the muscular...
08 November 2017
Boeing and CASIS award $500,000 for microgravity research on ISS
...for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) have again joined forces to grant a total of $500,000 to three microgravity research companies. The grants, provided through startup accelerator MassChallengeTM, are awarded to Cellino Biotech, Guardion...
