...spin-off business to cater for the sounding rocket market, carrying payloads for commercial or scientific microgravity research, of up to 100 kg. It would offer several minutes of weightlessness for experiments, followed by descent, parachute landing...
... (after Alan Shepard, the first American in space) and is designed to transport a crew of six people, or hundreds of kilogrammes of microgravity payload, into space and back to Earth. Our goal is to fly the first humans - our own astronauts...
.... Risks in space Space is a hostile environment for most living creatures. The main risks concern radiation and microgravity. In space, the radiation environment is much more dangerous than on Earth, where we are protected by a 10 km-thick layer...
..., it skews some of the results; no offence to the astronauts – it’s simply that their movements degrade the purity of the microgravity environment. The solutions discussed here are probably not the final solutions, but they represent the...
... Serena Auñón-Chancellor mixing protein crystal samples to help scientists understand how they work. Proteins crystallized in microgravity are often higher in quality than those grown on Earth and present opportunities for the development of new...
...the recent ‘Vection’ study onboard the ISS to explore perception of distance, motion and orientation capabilities under microgravity conditions. Despite these examples, MR has never been introduced in space or analogue missions as an integral habitat...