Stanford scientist seeks participants in NASA hypergravity study
... Most of their journey is spent weightless as they orbit the Earth. According to Cohen, if astronauts were exposed to hypergravity while in space, they might have an easier time re-adjusting to gravity on Earth - or on other planets - without suffering bouts of muscle atrophy, fainting and other common sid...Rice bioengineers develop method to grow 3-D bone matrix
...ronauts whose bones become brittle after months in orbit are a testament to the importance that mechanical stress plays in bone growth. In orbit, their skeletons aren't subject to the everyday stresses of gravity. Tissue engineers at Rice placed bone marrow-derived osteoblasts from rats into centimeter-wid...From moon rocks to space food: UH research spans 40 years
... spacecraft in low earth orbit. Materials grown in orbit have led to terrestrial applications such as bionic eyes, high-efficiency lasers and new sensor technology. Since 1992, the UH Cullen College of Engineering has administered an interdisciplinary graduate program in aerospace engineering that offers ...Three inferior prefrontal regions of the brain found receptive to somatosensory stimuli
...part of the frontal lobe that lies superior to the orbit of the eyes. This area of the brain plays an important role in emotional behavior, receives direct inputs from the dorsomedial thalamus, temporal cortex, ventral tegmental area, olfactory system, and the amygdala (illustration). Its outputs go to se...'Moss in space' project to test how plants grow 'up'
... gravity was removed. Moss cultures grown in orbit for two weeks in the dark during that flight produced elaborate clockwise spirals. We suspect that those spirals resulted from a residual spacing mechanism intended to control colony gro...European experiment hardware reaches the International Space Station
...mber 11P to the ISS was successfully launched into orbit on Sunday, 8 June at 12.34 Central European Time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress spacecraft acts as a cargo supply vehicle for the ISS. The Progress M1-10's cargo included European experiment equipment, which will play a larg...Searching for the 'real' waterworld
... as our planet. They would possess atmospheres and orbit their parent star at roughly the same distance that the Earth is from the Sun. Most excitingly, an ocean of water entirely covers each world and extends over 25 times deeper than the average depth of the oceans on Earth. A hundred kilometres deep...Passing its global sight test leaves MERIS ready for work
...ally equipped buoys were deployed close to Envisat orbit times in the Baltic, North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Mediterranean. Readings were also taken from whatever ships that were available. Journey to a cold ocean current teeming with life For open ocean data, in October 2002 ESA helped fund the South ...Scientific equipment including the first European student experiment reaches the ISS
...s M-48 on mission 12P to the ISS was launched into orbit on Friday, 29 August at 03.48 Central European Time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress spacecraft acts as a cargo supply vehicle for the ISS. On board the Progress M-48 was European experiment equipment which will play an impor...Envisat radar altimetry tracks river levels worldwide
...1 and ERS-2 spacecraft. From its 800 km-high polar orbit it sends 1800 separate radar pulses down to Earth per second then records how long their echoes take to return timing their journey down to under a nanosecond to calculate the exact distance to the planet below. Radar altimeters were first flown in...First extrasolar planets, now extrasolar moons
...h Eddington could detect. The Earth and the Moon orbit the Sun like ballroom dancers who move around the floor, simultaneously twirling about one another. This means the Earth does not follow a strictly circular path through space, sometimes it will be leading the Moon and sometimes trailing. This cause...ESA astronaut flies Cervantes mission to ISS
...ime (07.38 Central European Summer Time). Once in orbit it will take Duque and the two other crew members on board, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and NASA astronaut Michael Foale, about two days to reach the International Space Station (ISS). Docking is due at 09:11 CEST on 20 October, with the hatch...ESA and Rosaviakosmos sign up for two Foton flights
...Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin was put into orbit in 1961. But whereas the original Vostok design has been developed for manned missions into the Soyuz spacecraft, it has been very largely maintained for the unmanned Foton, which is primarily used for physics and materials science experimentation. T...ESA's first step towards Mars Sample Return
...capsule will be launched in 2011 and inserted into orbit around Mars. Two years later, a second spacecraft carrying a Descent Module and a Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) will be launched on a similar trajectory. During its final approach to Mars, the Descent Module/MAV will be released and make a controlled la......nges on Mars, as with all of the nine planets that orbit the sun, are tied to its obliquity, or tilt of its axis with respect to its orbital plane. Nealson and his colleagues proposed that as the Red Planet tilted exposing more of itself to the sun at various times in its history temperatures at the pol...Separation day arrives for Mars Express and Beagle 2
...ts own propulsion onto a planet and then attempted orbit insertion immediately afterwards. Meanwhile, Mars ...lanitia. Later that day, Mars Express should enter orbit around Mars. Beagle 2 has no propulsion system of its own so it is carried to Mars by the Mars Expre...B2MIN/6 scientists wait for Beagle 2 to call home
...ommunication link with Earth, successfully entered orbit around the planet on 25 December and is currently being manoeuvred into its operational polar orbit. Meanwhile, 13 more attempts to contact Mars Odyssey have been pre-programmed into Beagle 2's computer. If there is still no contact established after...B2MIN9: Beagle 2 teams continue efforts to communicate with the lander
...s Mars Express spacecraft in its operational polar orbit on 4 January. Mars Express was always intended to...r trajectory change that will move it into a polar orbit around the planet. "We haven't yet played all our cards," said Professor Southwood. "With Mars Expre...Beagle 2 team still hopes to repeat Mars landing success
... "We have realised that Mars Express is not in the orbit we originally expected, so our communication strat...ith Beagle 2. After reaching its operational polar orbit today, ESA's orbiter should pass over the Beagle 2 landing site regularly from 7 January onwards. Va...Successful progress launch paves the way for further scientific utilisation of the ISS by Europe
...V spacecraft, will enable rendezvous operations in orbit to be carried out with a degree of precision never yet attained. This instrument will analyse the laser light emitted by the ATV and reflected back to it by the retroreflectors. These retroreflectors make up part of the videometer target assembly, se...