January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...of space in December 2019 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket. OSCAR attained around three minutes of microgravity to demonstrate its features. About the author Annie Meier is chief of the Exploration Systems & Development Office which...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...genetic mutations, so protecting plants from radiation should be a priority One of the main issues for astronauts’ health in microgravity is bone density loss. Our bones are constantly balanced between growth and resorption, allowing bones to respond...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... Space Shuttle flight than most of the others so far suggested.” Okay, so the topic is regarded as important. And microgravity is regarded as an essential element for studying this phenomenon. So - what is it, what has been achieved and what can...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... astronauts in, too? GUPTA Correct. For everything. For all the things that Janet said, from the microgravity science and all those pieces, as well as putting up astronauts. It’s like we’re on the verge of commercialisation but still at the...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...low Earth orbit (LEO), which can only support research in microgravity, not partial gravity. Interestingly, there is little to no ...to mitigate bone loss and muscle atrophy is critical in microgravity. While those symptoms may be less severe in the ...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... not yet defined a true-to-fact connection between the initially low BMD and its loss value in microgravity, so it is currently impossible to calculate whether the skeleton of anyone having low BMD will approach a critical level of demineralisation...
