January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... assessment of medically related human overload exposure, behaviour during a period of weightlessness adaptation and pioneering medical studies to assess the effect of weightlessness on the vestibular apparatus in space. Despite the fact that Yegorov...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...film was shot in an aircraft capable of sustaining short periods of free fall - weightlessness – in a series of parabolic flights. So the actors really are weightless in many of the scenes. Apollo 13 is very much worth watching because it effectively...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
.... If the passengers are happy with experiencing microgravity, the technical implementation is rather simple. Passengers can enter weightlessness by taking a lift to the cylinder axis before moving through a rotary joint to exit the cylinder where the...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
.... This will include growing protein crystals, melting metal alloys in a weightless environment and measuring the effects of brain pressure whilst being in space. Being weightless can cause fluid in the body to move, mostly towards the head...
24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
... a year in space and how it adjusts to weightlessness, isolation, radiation and the stress of long-duration ...that individual is exposed to risks such as radiation and weightlessness. Our integrated team of researchers are addressing those risks ...
09 September 2020
The brain reorganises itself in space but is not destroyed, new study says
... been shown in previous studies as well and points toward a redistribution of the fluid within the skull as a result of weightlessness. None of our findings are associated with cognitive function." Like NASA’s Twin study, Jillings and colleagues...
