Sentences with phrase «as microgravity»

Blue Origin intends to use the New Shepard vehicle for suborbital space tourism and as a microgravity science laboratory.

«A more complete understanding of the yeast adaptation response to extreme environments, such as microgravity, and the risks associated with potential infection is vital for long - term crew health and safety.

This wide range of subjects illustrates the diversity of the space station as a microgravity research laboratory.

Not exact matches

«Learning how to make the most of the time in microgravity and tips on how to be comfortable and safe in macro gravity will form an important part of the preparation, as well as to be thoroughly familiar with all safety and emergency procedures,» says a Virgin Galactic representative.

On the discussion docket, per NASA's announcement on Zuckerberg's social media mecca, will be questions such as: «What is it like to live and work in microgravity orbiting the Earth?»

It's a great company, but it's nowhere near as sexy as a space telescope or microgravity research or rockets.

Companies developing things that could benefit from experiments in microgravity, such as biotechnology and new materials, are not flying them currently because they would need to wait years and pay a high price to put them on the ISS, says Gold.

As they spend relatively long periods «in flight» between punts, their movements resemble those of astronauts in microgravity.

The cucumber roots grown in microgravity bent towards the wet substrate, sometimes by as much as 60 degrees from the vertical.

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School in Massachusetts has a team monitoring the effect of microgravity on the growth of Bacillus subtilis, also useful as an antibiotic.

Students from Riebli Elementary and Mark West Charter School in California examine whether Triops longicaudatus, or tadpole shrimp, could be grown in microgravity as a food source for long - term missions.

Passengers on amusement park rides and the International Space Station experience microgravity — incorrectly known as zero gravity — because they fall at the same speed as the vehicles.

The walls and the ceilings were just as utilizable as the floors, and the students had to pay careful consideration to providing ways for astronauts to orient themselves in a microgravity environment.

He says that, after impact, the lander may have flown as high as 1 kilometer back into space (this is microgravity, after all) before returning again to the comet.

As well as providing a means of contactless transport for delicate biological cells and electronics, or dangerous materials, sound control could enable microgravity experiments at low cosAs well as providing a means of contactless transport for delicate biological cells and electronics, or dangerous materials, sound control could enable microgravity experiments at low cosas providing a means of contactless transport for delicate biological cells and electronics, or dangerous materials, sound control could enable microgravity experiments at low cost.

Experiments included studies of the microgravity environment, such as growing protein crystals, and studying the basic properties of flames and liquids.

Samples taken from the crew support human health studies in microgravity, such as the Nutrition investigation.

Yet studies suggesting that astronauts who spent time in space developed diabetes - like symptoms link microgravity with metabolism and point toward the liver, the major organ of metabolism, as a possible target of the space environment.

«As interest in space travel grows — for both research and commercial aims — it is increasingly important to understand the effect a microgravity environment can have on the human heart for both the traveler and their potential future children,» said Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

The researchers, led by Hokkaido University Professor Emeritus Yoshinori Furukawa, hoped to use the microgravity conditions of space to accurately measure the normal growth rates of crystal faces, as convective flow does not occur in this environment.

As part of this effort, Xu and her team discovered that growing stem cells under «simulated microgravity» for a few days stimulates the production of cardiac muscle cells, several times more effectively than regular conditions.

«The one - year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low - Earth orbit,» said Gerstenmaier.

As for that future, subcommittee chairman Bill Nelson (D - FL) and Michael Gold of Bigelow Aerospace were bullish on the future of microgravity research for the pharmaceutical industry in particular.

Botanists from Ohio Weslyan University leverage the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to study root growth behaviors and sensory systems in an investigation known as Gravity Perception Systems (Plant Gravity Perception).

Scheduled to launch in 2018 during «Horizons,» Alexander Gerst's second science mission as a European Space Agency astronaut, «Bake in Space» will experiment with a specialty bread dough in a microgravity oven to bake in orbit for the first time ever.

As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we've recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.

From that point on, the camera starts following the same rules of physics as the characters in microgravity, and the idea is for the audience to be taken into the journey.

With these virtual arms, players will be able to interact with various aspects of the world while microgravity transforms trivial every - day tasks, such as movement or undoing a screw, into complex physics puzzles.