Sentences with phrase «in the microgravity environment of»

But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears?

The APEX - 06 experiment investigates the growth of the common grass species Brachypodium distachyon in the microgravity environment of space.

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Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «And the main purpose of this is two things: one, to practice docking maneuvers, and two, to allow Chinese astronauts to have a little more extended time in a microgravity environment.»

Some of the seeds were allowed to grow in the ISS's microgravity environment, others were grown inside a centrifuge to simulate Earth's gravity.

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But the team is wary of upsetting the lander, which came to rest in a precarious position on its side in November after bouncing around the comet in its microgravity environment.

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.

A set of crucial immunity genes do not turn on in a simulated microgravity environment, suggest the results of a new study.

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

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.

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.

Both eggs and parents that will lay eggs onboard the ISS will be sent, enabling study of flies that have spent their whole life in an almost zero — microgravity — environment.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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: