Questions tagged [microgravity]
Questions regarding the absence of significant gravitational force.
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"Prolonged exposure to microgravity ... makes facial hair flammable"?
TheWeek recently published an article titled "The Colonization of Space", which contained the following sentence (emphasis added):
Prolonged exposure to microgravity weakens bones, atrophies ...
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What is the name of the animal vaccine created in space? (according to Robert Zubrin)
I'm reading "The Case for Space" and on pg 47 of the book, Zubrin mentions that some sort of animal vaccine was created thanks to research done in microgravity and in space. He goes on to say that ...
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What is the impact of micro-G environment and magnetic field in LEO on blood flow and brain function?
How are sleeping and cognition in microgravity, with rapid changes in magnetic field, different from the normal human life on Earth?
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Aerosol products in space
I am assuming aerosol products are not used inside the living environment of a spacecraft while it is microgravity. Is that correct, or are there examples of such products being used while an ...
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Has the ISS done any experiments on animals gestation such as mice? I particularly would like to know about embryo development in microgravity
Has the ISS done any experiments on animals gestation such as mice? I particularly would like to know about embryo development in microgravity
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What is it like for ISS astronauts to re-adjust to the Earth's gravity?
ISS expeditions last up to half a year, as long as a flight to or from Mars would last. Here I answered to a question dealing with the adaptation of Martian visitors from microgravity to Martian 0.38 ...
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Psychotropes study in microgravity
Alcohol seems to have been taken and consumed in space (not so sure about the ISS, but definitely on Mir).
Is this the only psychotrope substance that has been tried in space ?
Is there any formal ...
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Is there a term for the activity of weightless astronauts hanging out on walls or ceilings?
Weightless astronauts often sit, stand, walk, or sleep on (or near) surfaces that (with gravity) we would normally call walls or ceilings. I reference such a phenomenon in my comment here:
I would ...
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