On the discussion docket, per NASA's announcement on Zuckerberg's social media mecca, will be questions such as: «What is it like to live and work in
microgravity orbiting the Earth?»
Not exact matches
NanoRacks is the leading commercial provider of hardware and services in low - Earth
orbit for
microgravity research and space station utilization.
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.
To test this, Japanese researchers freeze - dried mouse sperm and sent it up to the ISS, where it spent nine months
orbiting the Earth in
microgravity.
Once they're in
orbit, we quadruple the volume where they can do experiments in
microgravity.»
But Velardo hopes to try it out soon aboard a parabolic aircraft flight that simulates the
microgravity found in
orbit.
«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.
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.