July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... adapted to life on Earth, human beings are susceptible to all sorts of diseases and viruses. The side-effects of weightlessness and prolonged radiation exposure aside, recent research has demonstrated that long-term space habitation, and...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... and concepts. These efforts have brought about the perfect system for preventing the unfavourable effects of weightlessness and other spaceflight factors, which make it possible for people to survive for long periods and work...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... books. Space travel is compelling, whether it’s the desire to have a life-changing view of Earth from orbit or to float weightless in space as in our flying dreams. Advances in private space travel, once the domain of a privileged few, are about...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...flight, I read articles about how people move in weightlessness and the challenges they experience. It seemed that on...programs to simulate the detailed physics of the human body in weightlessness. I wanted to understand: does the body rotate and where...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... of the main parameters of plant cultivation, as recorded during the spaceflight. To provide normal growth and development of plants in weightlessness, both the correct methodology and the right equipment to regulate the water and air settings of the...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... Earth is to be in a pool, under water - it’s really the only way we can train for many hours in something like weightlessness and be able to work in three dimensions and in all orientations. So, that’s how we train. In Houston there is a giant pool...
