Sentences with phrase «how microgravity»

MRI scans done on more than 20 astronauts reveal new results on how microgravity can affect the human brain.

Back inside the orbital lab, the Expedition 54 crew researched how microgravity affects muscles to help humans on Earth.

Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) and whether any changes would persist after the worms returned to earth.

Launched last week, communication was lost after just a few days and the fate of its passengers — five geckos, which would be filmed throughout the flight to see how microgravity affected their fertility and offspring; a load of fruit flies; mushrooms and microbes — was unknown.

Northland Preparatory Academy students in Flagstaff, Arizona, will analyze how microgravity affects onion cell DNA replication.

«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.»

St. Peter's School students in Kansas City, Missouri, want to determine how microgravity affects oxidation, which could rust the interior and exterior of spacecraft.

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.

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.

And while socializing on Mars might be in the near - distant future, Budweiser is taking steps now to better understand how its ingredients react in microgravity environments so that when we get to Mars, Budweiser will be there.

The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.

The Cottage Lane students hope to determine how long the plant takes to germinate in microgravity, while the Florida group looks at the frequency of lettuce seed germination in space.

This likely reflects brain plasticity associated with «learning how to move in microgravity».

The Plant Signaling investigation and Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) 17 - 1 both study how the plants» gene expressions change in microgravity.

These experiments will help biologists understand how plants respond to microgravity, which will improve efforts aimed at growing food in space — a crucial component of long - duration missions to Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

ACE - M - 1 testing will take advantage of the microgravity environment of station to study how microscopic particles spread out and clump together in gels and creams.

Returning investigation samples will demonstrate how life in microgravity affects the growth of plant seedlings, changes to the human body, the behavior of semiconductors and detergents, and more.

Kelly is one half of nasa's Twins Study, an investigation into how life in microgravity affects physiology.

By looking at the artifacts of astronauts — from their dining utensils and sleeping bags to their religious icons and family photos — these researchers hope to gain new insights into how astronauts of different backgrounds interact with each other, and how they adapt to life in microgravity.

A new study from the ESA has looked at how seedlings handle microgravity.

NASA's EcAMSat small satellite experiment may reveal how to more effectively fight bacteria in microgravity.

«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.

To find out how bacteria behaves in the microgravity conditions of space, a team of researchers led by Luis Zea from the University of Colorado Boulder sent E. coli samples up to the ISS.

One mission of the Microbial Observatory Experiments on the International Space Station is to examine the traits and diversity of fungal isolates, to gain a better understanding of how fungi may adapt to microgravity environments and how this may affect interactions with humans in closed habitats.

The Expedition 55 crew explored a wide variety of life science today studying how different biological systems are affected by long - term exposure to microgravity.

The challenge of microgravity also extends to biology, and a metabolic tracking project will look into how it affects various medicines.