December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... levels enable healthy embryo development. Our incubator is engineered to provide adjustable artificial gravity so that we can generate and study the effects of multiple gravity levels. This means that we don’t need to go to Mars to learn about the...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
..., where strong tethers - currently at a stage of rockets in the 1950s - promise a bright future for artificial gravity or momentum exchange [14], concepts to manoeuvre without propellant such as ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator (EDDE) [15], and light...
July 2018
A moment in space and time
... speech he announced the intention to create habitable space stations and settlements on the Moon equipped with artificial gravity and protection from cosmic radiation to enable permanent human habitation in space. He also announced time scales...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...cylinders twenty miles in length by five miles in diameter. They would rotate along their long axes to provide artificial gravity. The cylinders would turn in opposing directions to counteract gyroscopic forces that might cause a single unit to drift...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...For example, the agency is studying the effects of artificial gravity, together with universities and other researchers, although, as of today, we have no projects to build artificial gravity into our space stations. International Space Station (2021...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
...term strategy of creating off-world human settlements. To further this goal, challenging issues relating to radiation and artificial gravity need to be addressed and ASIC was the first such event created specifically to allow world-leading scientists...
