... a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and then...
... for resolving disputes is in place. A mission to Mars will be challenging enough, thanks to the possibilities of equipment failure, microgravity effects and radiation exposure. Conflicts and disputes among the crew will only increase the challenge...
... approach would even have the bonus that it could be used as a variable gravity laboratory and not just a microgravity laboratory. However, the NASA post-Apollo programme envisaged large stations in orbit and surface bases on the...
... materials, a Space Manufacturing Prize would reward an innovative company that demonstrates the manufacture of a product in the microgravity environment of space followed by its safe return to Earth without the use of the International Space Station...
... these systems as well as testing them out for space-readiness. The lack of an atmosphere and the presence of microgravity in space, also makes it the perfect environment to conduct fundamental physics experiments and many such experiments are...
..., over the past decade, multiple private organisations have provided commercial services onboard the ISS for microgravity research, CubeSat deployment, in-space manufacturing and other activities. Meanwhile, private companies such as NanoRacks and...