July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... performed during the Italian Marco Polo Mission in April 2002, and GOAL, Garments for Orbital Activities in weightlessness, was carried out during the Eneide Mission, in April 2005. Space is still a pioneering sector, with very...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...in the female participants, which could indicate some differences in the processes of bone tissue adaptation to simulated weightlessness in women and men. Experiment looking at the remote control of an anthropomorphic robot. Another relevant and bone...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... be reflected in creative fashion design that takes into consideration the behaviour of fabrics and the dressed body in a weightless environment e.g., by diverting from close-fitting suits akin to early jet-age flight suits to a more non-functional...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
... capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, the astronauts can enjoy several minutes of weightlessness before the capsule descends and reenters the atmosphere. On the return to Earth, astronauts will experience about...
25 March 2016
Airbus Spaceplane May Be the Future of Space Tourism
.... The rocket propulsion system will then shut down as the plane’s inertia carries it on to over 100km, with weightlessness lasting for a few minutes at the top of the flight arc. The plane will then slow down...
01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
... precise moment the alignment occurred. If they did, he promised they would feel a strange floating sensation resembling weightlessness. At 9:47 Moore commanded the jump, and only a minute later calls began flooding the BBC switchboard from...
