September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... NASA’s Ron Garan in the foreground Bedrest is used as a ground-based analogue for studying the effects of weightlessness on physiological systems as seen during spaceflight (Goswami et al., 2015; Jost, 2008; Pavy Le Traon et al., 2007). The bedrest...
June 2018
Striding through space
... counted against him. Bruce McCandless wears the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) during an underwater test in the Weightless Environment Training Facility. He is floating above the grey Flight Support Station, a frame which holds the MMU...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...). The crew capsule atop the launcher is large enough for six people to float freely and experience weightless before returning to Earth. About the author Rick N. Tumlinson, a member of ROOM’s Editorial Board, was named one...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... human beings, such as the effects of ageing. A great deal has been learned already by studying the effects of weightlessness on astronauts; but we could do much more by extending work currently undertaken on Earth to a microgravity environment. NASA...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... as scientific and functional equipment. ESA has already developed an aerospace-quality plastic 3D printer for operation in weightlessness that is able to recycle used plastic. And the use of local materials has also been demonstrated: a 1.5 tonne...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
...of what’s possible for us according to our anatomical, physiological and psychological capabilities and our technological accomplishments. Weightlessness and cosmic radiation, the duration of interplanetary trips using current (and even future) modes...
