The tips could flake or break off, drifting in
microgravity where they might harm an astronaut or equipment.
Not exact matches
By now, European astronauts had hoped to be established in their space laboratory called Columbus,
where they would be melting and solidifying conductive metals, studying
microgravity effects on single - celled organisms, investigating human balance disorders, and carrying out dozens of other experiments.
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.»
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.