Sentences with phrase «in microgravity environments for»

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

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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.
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.
«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 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.
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:
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