July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... some down time, ESA’s Thomas Pesquet ‘carries’ NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on his shoulders in the weightless environment of the Kibo lab module, with Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA enjoying the fun (Expedition 65, April 2021...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... performed during the Italian Marco Polo Mission in April 2002, and GOAL, Garments for Orbital Activities in weightlessness, was carried out during the Eneide Mission, in April 2005. Space is still a pioneering sector, with very...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...in the female participants, which could indicate some differences in the processes of bone tissue adaptation to simulated weightlessness in women and men. Experiment looking at the remote control of an anthropomorphic robot. Another relevant and bone...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... be reflected in creative fashion design that takes into consideration the behaviour of fabrics and the dressed body in a weightless environment e.g., by diverting from close-fitting suits akin to early jet-age flight suits to a more non-functional...
April 2025
Strapped for success - from racetrack to orbit
... space industry – the type of webbing used in high-performance seat-belts – has been of fundamental importance in the weightless environment, simply because straps are required to hold everything in place. The primary reasons why the webbing...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
... capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, the astronauts can enjoy several minutes of weightlessness before the capsule descends and reenters the atmosphere. On the return to Earth, astronauts will experience about...
