Sentences with phrase «microgravity environments»

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.

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

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 mission, says Reichert, is «to understand the impact of the microgravity environment on the structure, delivery method, and purification» of these types of compounds.

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.»

Richard Garriott's own artistry — an interpretation of the «action painting» made famous by Jackson Pollock — took advantage of the ISS's 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.

«In space, it's an extreme example of neuroplasticity in the brain because you're in a microgravity environment 24 hours a day,» Seidler said.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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:

Astronaut sleeping areas require good ventilation; in the microgravity environment exhaled carbon dioxide can pool around the sleeping astronaut's head if it is not pushed away by fresh air.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.