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...
September 2026
Pregnancy among the stars - the biology of birth beyond Earth
.... Blood volume increases, the heart works harder and body fluids are redistributed. Interestingly, astronauts adapting to weightlessness experience many of the same physiological changes. Both situations involve fluid shifts throughout the body and...
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...
06 April 2016
Crude oil launched into space today to study Earth's depths
... scale this experiment is doing something similar but then looking at how temperature causes fluids to rearrange in weightlessness,” says ESA’s Olivier Minster. “Deep underground, crushing pressure and rising temperature as one goes down is thought...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
...example, the NASA concept of the Nautilus-X spaceship planned to use a non-rotating central spaceship body with weightless areas, while a residential unit rotated around this to generate an artificial gravity. However, in order to allow free movement...
