Sentences with phrase «time in a microgravity environment»
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.»
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«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.