January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... rubbish and litter is a huge environmental concern on Earth but transfer the problem to the restricted confines of a long term space mission and it becomes an even bigger issue. Rigorous housekeeping to ensure crews remain safe and healthy on future...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... in weightlessness during an ESA parabolic flight campaign opening the way for surgical care during long-term space missions, such as interplanetary human spaceflight. Parabolic manoeuvres A solid object launched in a vacuum with an initial velocity...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...number of lactobacilli in the vaginal microflora is an important condition for maintaining the health of female participants of long-term space missions and is directly related to the chances of getting pregnant. It was concluded from the eight-month...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... study the medical, biological and psychological problems associated with human isolation and space limitation during simulated long-term space missions beyond Earth’s orbit. Currently, the Institute’s scientists are primarily focused on medical and...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... efforts are therefore being directed towards increasing self-sufficiency and thereby Earth independence in order to make long-term space missions such as NASA’s ‘Journey to Mars’ both possible and practical. Matt Damon growing crops on Mars in The...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... the physiological assessment and prediction of changes in the skeleton under spaceflight conditions. However, successfully completed long-term space missions inspire optimism and offer no justification to the view that risks to the skeleton will...
