March 2022
What space taught me about water
... Earth. The following article is based on an exclusive extract from her book. The coolest thing about living in microgravity is the ability to float around, but perhaps the most entrancing aspect is to experience the magic of floating water...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...of space in December 2019 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket. OSCAR attained around three minutes of microgravity to demonstrate its features. About the author Annie Meier is chief of the Exploration Systems & Development Office which...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...genetic mutations, so protecting plants from radiation should be a priority One of the main issues for astronauts’ health in microgravity is bone density loss. Our bones are constantly balanced between growth and resorption, allowing bones to respond...
September 2026
Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth
... involve fluid shifts throughout the body and increased demands on the cardiovascular system. Whether pregnancy and microgravity amplify one another remains unknown. Given the uterine muscles are in a balanced state, premature birth is unlikely...
September 2026
Can Starlab offer Europe a future in Earth orbit?
... ISS partner, contributing laboratories, cargo systems and astronaut capability while benefiting from access to long-duration microgravity research, and Smith repeatedly returned to the idea that Europe risks treating post-ISS access as an optional...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... Space Shuttle flight than most of the others so far suggested.” Okay, so the topic is regarded as important. And microgravity is regarded as an essential element for studying this phenomenon. So - what is it, what has been achieved and what can...
