Japan astronaut tweets about space sickness
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa has tweeted from the International Space Station that he suffers from travel sickness in space.
Space Exploration
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China astronauts float water blob in kids' lecture
Astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space program ...
Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2013
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Expedition 40 all set to go
From unusual training to upholding cherished traditions, everything is being done to ensure that ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and his crewmates arrive at the International Space Station on Thursday safely and in good health ...
Space Exploration
May 27, 2014
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Team explores vision complications for astronauts
An international partnership between Florida State University and a team from the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that space travel may severely impair the body's ability to regulate blood rushing to the brain, which ...
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2015
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Image: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet testing Skinsuit in weightlessness
Astronauts have been known to grow by up to 7 cm as their spines lengthen in weightlessness. As a result, many suffer from backache during their missions. ESA is supporting the development of a suit designed to combat the ...
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2014
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Parabolic flight with exoskeleton: Researchers test fine motor skills in weightlessness
Fine motor tasks under space conditions are particularly challenging and must first be trained on Earth. Scientists from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) ...
Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2024
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Space: Europe's 'Vomit Comet' sets commercial flights
How much would you pay to emulate astronauts as they float weightlessly in space?
Space Exploration
Dec 4, 2012
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Finding the key to immunity, ESA way
Living in space weakens astronauts' immune systems, researchers have discovered. The findings are providing clues on how to tackle diseases on Earth before symptoms appear.
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2013
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Researchers test microelectronics cooling system in weightless environment
(Phys.org) —Three years of preparation supported by NASA paid off this June for researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago who conducted experiments while floating weightless on a Novespace & European Space ...
Engineering
Jul 11, 2013
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Image: Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eyes
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, a member of the Expedition 56 crew currently aboard the International Space Station, examined her eye with a Funduscope with remote support from doctors on the ground.
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2018
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