May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... Tsiolkovsky, modern scientists had doubts that plants would be able to successfully grow and reproduce in a zero gravity because their dependence on gravity was considered too great. Early experiments also suggested it was unlikely that plants would...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... the medical consequences of living in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero gravity, first experienced by Vostok cosmonaut Herman Titov back in 1961, is called space adaptation syndrome (SAS). This is where...
October 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
... fundamental issues relating to this problem, scientists have to develop zero gravity simulations. The most promising simulations for researching physiological effects of hypo-gravity are immersion (into a liquid environment, with a density similar...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
...into space in 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before the first human ...access to the market and to ensure scientists think about low gravity environments as a commodity. The work will have to be done...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
...and experienced by me for the first time. Teaching in zero gravity On-orbit demonstrations are quite different to what we’re used ... butterfly, fly to the sky and realise my dream.” Zero gravity was both challenging and amusing I was very touched that ...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... Z-1 series by NASA). The so-called ‘Gandolfi-II’ suit can be used both on land and under water (to simulate reduced or zero gravity conditions on the Moon or in orbit). Thus the suit is a valuable asset for Earth-analogue simulations of a wide range...
