Tag: Microgravity

Zero-G: “Movement in Microgravity: Skylab to Space Shuttle” 1988 NASA Weightlessness Footage

more at “This video takes a serious and humorous look at life in the low gravity environment of space flight. The video also includes onboard activities from Skylab to Space …

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Space Station Live: Immunity in Microgravity

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center speaks with the University of Houston’s Richard Simpson, the principal investigator of the Salivary Markers experiment on the International Space …

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SpeedyTime 4 – Microgravity Science Glovebox

Doing groundbreaking science can mean working with dangerous materials; how do the astronauts on the International Space Station protect themselves and their ship in those cases? They use the Microgravity …

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How astronauts exercise in microgravity

The environment of the International Space Station isn’t exactly hospitable to the human body. In this episode of Space Craft, Loren Grush tries out some of the specialized machines astronauts …

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Microgravity Science Glovebox

This video is one of a series of short features about some of the experiment racks on station. This video focuses on the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) and features the …

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Rodent Research in Microgravity

There are components of rodent biology that are directly related to human biology. Almost every gene found in the human so far has been found in a closely related form …

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Space Station Live: This is Your Brain on Microgravity

NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean speaks with Dr. Rachael Seidler, the principal investigator of the NeuroMapping experiment, which had its first data takes on orbit today. Through sensory, motor …

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Fighting Cancer Through Microgravity Research

Conducting cancer research in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station offers unique insight into the genetic and cellular processes that can’t be duplicated on Earth. Luis Zea, a …

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How Fruit Flies Help us Understand Human Responses to Microgravity

Scientists study how astronauts are affected by microgravity, but with a relatively small number of human subjects available to them, they often turn to a model organisms for research. Model …

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Space Station Live: Protein Crystal Growth in Microgravity

NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer speaks with Dr. Larry DeLucas of the Center for Structural Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham about the CPCG-HM experiment, flying to …

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