Sentences with phrase «for microgravity»

In - space fabrication will be getting an update with a brand new HP 3D printer made for microgravity, but also an experiment in sintering - based additive manufacturing.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

The station crew later will unload the equipment and supplies inside the Dragon, including a glovebox - sized habitat holding 20 mice that will be used for microgravity research into bone density.

NanoRacks is the leading commercial provider of hardware and services in low - Earth orbit for microgravity research and space station utilization.

Not exact matches

CASIS's mission is to encourage «use of this unparalleled platform for innovation» — and Merck is taking this to heart by experimenting with drug development in the realm of microgravity.

For this first flight, astronauts will just test that the technology works in microgravity by analysing the genomes of bacteria, viruses and mice.

Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, has already bought seats on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for two of its scientists at $ 200,000 a pop, allowing them to carry out trial experiments in microgravity.

Giant crystals and spherical flames — science in microgravity The International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity experiments have been under way for decades.

Furthermore, the same team is applying new microgravity technology — originally developed by NASA for the International Space Station — to make large enough quantities of the stem cells to repair tissue damage in patients.

Even after the cells were taken out of microgravity for up to 30 generations before being combined with the control strain, they maintained 72 per cent of their adaptive advantage, pointing to permanent mutations in the genes rather than merely a temporary adjustment.

Japanese researchers shipped freeze - dried mouse sperm to the orbiting International Space Station and stored it there for nine months to find out how microgravity and cosmic radiation would affect mice born from the cells.

For the first time, an optical clock has traveled to space, surviving harsh rocket launch conditions and successfully operating under the microgravity that would be experienced on a satellite.

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

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.

Ninth - graders from Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy in Washington, focused their attention on whether radish roots and shoots will grow differently in microgravity.

«The microgravity environment of the International Space Station is now being used for myriad lines of research, for example: vaccine development, finding novel molecular targets against drug - resistant pathogens, and testing of molecules to be used against osteoporosis or cancer,» Zea says.

«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.

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

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.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

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 cost.

For her Ph.D., Dunbar turned her attention to the effects of microgravity on bone strength, graduating in 1983 from the University of Houston after adding a biological science to her list of qualifications.

Astronauts who live in microgravity for prolonged periods also can have compromised immune systems, he notes.

A new paper in the journal npj Microgravity explores the options for astronauts who want to prevent menstrual bleeding during their space missions.

«Disuse osteopenia is the same disease that astronauts get when they're in microgravity environments for long periods of time,» Caird said.

The European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) is a platform carrying equipment for experiments in microgravity.

The purpose of this study is to collect data on the viability of edible plants grown in microgravity, supporting further human space exploration by contributing to the future goal of maintaining an available supply of fresh produce for crew members.

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

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Madhan Tirumalai at the University of Houston in Texas placed E. coli cells in a rotating vessel to simulate microgravity for 1000 bacterial generations, after which they had gained 16 genetic mutations.

Eureca, developed by the European Space Agency, highlights a dramatic change in fortune for the science of microgravity — the study of materials and living matter in an environment where the effects of gravity are small.

His expectations were exceeded when his supervisor at the center offered him an opportunity to tackle a microgravity research project that Sergi Vaquer, a young medical doctor at the Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM), also in Barcelona, needed help with.

Then the cucumber seedlings were either i) maintained in microgravity or ii) gravi - stimulated by applying a 1g centrifugal force for a further two hours.

They reared small freshwater fish aboard the International Space Station for 56 days and examined the animals» jawbones and teeth for any potential effects from microgravity.

«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.

«Velardo hopes to try out the Kinect - based system for weighing crew in a microgravity environment»

The Metabolic Tracking investigation evaluates a rapid, low - cost method for assessing the effects of therapeutic compounds in microgravity.

The long stay for Kelly and Kornienko should provide valuable information on the effects of long - term living in a microgravity environment — considered important for planning future deep - space missions to asteroids and Mars.

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.

Stem cell expert Chunhui Xu (also featured in our post last week about microgravity) has teamed up with biomedical engineers Ximei Qian and Shuming Nie to develop an extremely sensitive technique for detecting stray stem cells.

«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.

Additionally, AstroRad is expected to be used aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2019 for advanced ergonomic studies in microgravity.

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.

They worked so hard for the past few months, and finally, Jonathan Grom, Kathy Litman and Dave West could fly their experiment 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.

introducing SSEP curricular content for foundational instruction on: the nature of microgravity, science conducted in microgravity, mini-laboratory operation, and experimental design

The company's work has caught NASA's eye, and it has been selected for a Phase II STTR award to explore the production of biopolymers in a microgravity environment:

The team has already been working on microgravity 3D printing tests for the space agency and now they'll be creating a 3D printer for use on the International Space Station starting next fall — the first device to manufacture parts in space.