February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...experiments under conditions of microgravity, where the effects of gravity are shut down. It’s interesting not only for scientists...brew real espresso in space. And they even sent us real zero gravity coffee cups so I could enjoy my coffee in style. ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... the necessity of developing and using means and methods of preventing the adverse effects of prolonged zero gravity during human spaceflight. In general, biological studies were a significant contribution to a deeper understanding of the bodily...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
... in a one-year mission to study the effects of zero gravity, radiation, stressors, and the mere fact of being away...the human body was designed by nature to survive in Earth’s gravity environment. A good summary of what we already know about ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
...such as aerospace engineering, component/composite development and fabrication, space vehicle assembly, astronaut training, zero-gravity scientific and medical experiments, microsatellite development, and space tourism. In August 2013, Houston’s City...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
.... Occasionally, the reality of space makes some of these activities and foods difficult. We didn’t have to deal with zero gravity, or even try to simulate that part of a mission to Mars. Living off-grid on renewable energy, however, we did have...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...prospect. However, its spaceplane - an enlarged development of SpaceShipOne - and others under construction, provide just a few minutes of zero gravity on top of a very steep flight. As such they are useful lead-ins but to launch satellites and visit...
