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1 week, 2 days ago

Italian delegation shares expertise on how to sustain human life in space

A delegation of researchers from the University of Sassari, who are visiting India on Sunday as part of Italian Space Day, shared their expertise on how to sustain human life in space and the challenges faced by space researchers and astronauts to support life beyond Earth. Prof. Plinio Innocenzi, Dr. Alessia Manca, and Dr. Andrada Pica delivered lectures at the …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

ISRO and Dept of Biotechnology Sign MoU for Space Biotechnology Research

Hindustan Times

Indian space agency ISRO and the Department of Biotechnology have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in space biotechnology research. The MoU focuses on microgravity research, space bio-manufacturing, bioastronautics and space biology. The aim is to address challenges in space missions, including the availability of nutrients, preservation of food, microgravity and radiation, health hazards such as cancers, cataracts, …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Can you have sex in space? How astronauts stuck on board the ISS could join the '220-mile-high club' (although NASA insists that no humans have done it before!)

Daily Mail

Sex in space is not physically impossible, although it would be difficult Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the headlines this month, after NASA revealed that they would be stuck on the International Space Station together for six months, despite originally expecting to be there for eight days. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the headlines this month, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

How space missions can fight microgravity? Details here

India TV News

New insights surfaced, stating how microgravity affects muscle function which have emerged from a study that involves live human muscle cells sent to the International Space Station. The research by a team at Stanford University in the US utilised muscle chips bioengineered structures containing oriented muscle cells to investigate the effects of space travel on muscle health and to test …

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9 months ago

Astronaut Loral O'Hara on how life in space alters human health : Short Wave : NPR

NPR

What's it like to live in space? One astronaut says it changes her dreams Enlarge this image toggle caption NASA NASA Few humans have had the opportunity to see Earth from space. And for astronauts living in the International Space Station like Loral O'Hara, that view never gets old. "You know, you see it in photographs, but that doesn't compare …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Study documents headaches experienced by astronauts in space

The Hindu

Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways in which a microgravity environment and other factors can meddle with the human body during space missions. The headaches occurring during the early period often present as migraine-like while those experienced later in space travel present more like a tension headache, the study found. “We hypothesize that different …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers

The Hindu

Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it could be possible for humans to reproduce in space, a group of Japanese scientists said. The researchers, including Teruhiko Wakayama, professor of University of Yamanashi's Advanced Biotechnology Centre, and a team from the Japan Aerospace Space Agency, sent frozen mouse embryos …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Scientists document how space travel messes with the human brain

The Hindu

Space can be an unfriendly place for the human body, with microgravity conditions and other factors tampering with our physiology, from head to toe - head, of course, being a primary concern. Researchers said on Thursday that astronauts who traveled on the International Space Station or NASA space shuttles on missions lasting at least six months experienced significant expansion of …

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2 years, 1 month ago

SpaceX To Launch Research On Bone Regeneration Implantable Drug Delivery Ants To International Space Station On Commercial Resupply Mission CRS 26

ABP News

SpaceX is launching a variety of critical research and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday, November 22 at 3:54 pm EST, as part of the private firm's 26th Commercial Resupply Services mission, SpaceX CRS-26. The most interesting experiments being sent include research on bone regeneration, an implantable drug delivery device, a tissue chip system, and ants. Implantable drug …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Robot surgeon being sent to International Space Station

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A tiny surgery robot will be sent to the International Space Station The …

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2 years, 5 months ago

SpaceX, NASA launch climate science research to International Space Station

Live Mint

A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft has left for the International Space Station carrying science experiments aiming to help carry out climate science research in space on 14 July at 8.44 pm. The Cargo Dragon spacecraft was launched the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is transporting 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Astronauts to help build artificial retinas on Space Station

The Independent

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2 years, 7 months ago

IIT Madras creates research group to manufacture in outer space

India Today

According to officials, IIT Madras has established a research group to develop technology for manufacturing products in outer space or extraterrestrial places and address the country's current shortages in this field. "Such long term human space missions are feasible only with reduced earth-reliance and this mandates capability to manufacture and fabricate needed products in space, in orbit, at extraterrestrial locations …

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3 years, 4 months ago

The Other Olympics: Space Swimming, Microgravity Games Aboard Space Station. Watch

News 18

After record-breaking performances and producing the youngest gold medalist in the Olympic games, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games wrapped up with a closing ceremony on Sunday. However, another unofficial but interesting closing ceremony of the games was held some 400 kilometres high in the sky from Tokyo — at the International Space Station. Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide unfurled …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Sirisha Bandla to Operate NASA-backed Plant Experiment During Virgin Spaceflight

News 18

Sirisha Bandla, the Indian-origin aeronautical engineer aboard the Virgin Galactic fully crewed spaceflight will be activating a NASA-supported plant experiment at critical data-collection stages during the flight. According to NASA, Bandla, the second India-born woman to fly to space, will be operating the experiment on the “Unity 22” flight on behalf of co-investigators from the University of Florida. Although researchers …

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3 years, 5 months ago

IIT Madras develops drone algorithms to understand how fire behaves in space stations, satellites

India Today

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed algorithms for drones to help study how fire behaves in space stations, shuttles and satellites. The free fall of sounding rockets and free fall of payloads from high altitude balloons and drop towers can also enable microgravity,” Kedarisetty Siddhardha, research scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras told PTI. “The …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Cryopreservation: Scientists to Culture Living Heart Cells on International Space Station

News 18

Researchers have explored new ways to culture living heart cells for microgravity research aboard the International Space Station. The investigation, MVP Cell-03, cultured heart precursor cells on the ISS to study how microgravity affects the number of cells produced and how many of them survive. These precursor cells have the potential for use in disease modelling, drug development, and regenerative …

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3 years, 11 months ago

What did we learn from experiments on the International Space Station in 2020?

Live Mint

When it comes to scientific experiments, the International Space Station is a busy place. Now, through the MARROW study, which is Force feedback in microgravity Just the way your video-game joysticks use force feedback to make the gaming experience more engrossing, the Kontur experiment, a study from the Russian space agency Roscosmos, used the ISS as the orbiter and Earth …

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4 years ago

Nasa grows radishes in space under microgravity

Hindustan Times

Located in Europe’s Columbus module, the NASA experiment is the latest in the study of plants growing in microgravity. With plans to visit the Moon and Mars, future astronauts will need a regular, fresh source of food as they take on these missions farther away from home. Growing plants in the microgravity conditions of the International Space Station has allowed …

Space Plant Nasa Grows Radishes

4 years, 1 month ago

How This Bacteria Survived Outside the ISS for a Year Despite Exposure to Vacuum and Microgravity

News 18

Researchers have found that some extraordinarily resistant microorganisms can withstand the drastic influence of outer space: galactic cosmic and solar ultraviolet radiation, extreme vacuum, temperature fluctuations, desiccation, freezing, and microgravity. After one year of exposure to low Earth orbit outside the International Space Station, researchers found that the extremophilic bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans escaped morphological damage and produced numerous outer membrane …

Space Earth

4 years, 3 months ago

Mission Gaganyaan: Training India’s Astronauts for Space Travel

The Quint

Space travel can be challenging, and astronauts will have to handle conditions such as handling life in isolation over long periods of time, space disorientation, and microgravity – the condition of weightlessness that astronauts experience in their spacecraft on space missions. IAM also boasts of a simulator that can simulate temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees centigrade to 60 degrees, …

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Italian delegation shares expertise on how to sustain human life in space

ISRO and Dept of Biotechnology Sign MoU for Space Biotechnology Research

Can you have sex in space? How astronauts stuck on board the ISS could join the '220-mile-high club' (although NASA insists that no humans have done it before!)

How space missions can fight microgravity? Details here

Astronaut Loral O'Hara on how life in space alters human health : Short Wave : NPR

Study documents headaches experienced by astronauts in space

Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers

Scientists document how space travel messes with the human brain

SpaceX To Launch Research On Bone Regeneration Implantable Drug Delivery Ants To International Space Station On Commercial Resupply Mission CRS 26

Robot surgeon being sent to International Space Station

SpaceX, NASA launch climate science research to International Space Station

Astronauts to help build artificial retinas on Space Station

IIT Madras creates research group to manufacture in outer space

The Other Olympics: Space Swimming, Microgravity Games Aboard Space Station. Watch

Sirisha Bandla to Operate NASA-backed Plant Experiment During Virgin Spaceflight

IIT Madras develops drone algorithms to understand how fire behaves in space stations, satellites

Cryopreservation: Scientists to Culture Living Heart Cells on International Space Station

What did we learn from experiments on the International Space Station in 2020?

Nasa grows radishes in space under microgravity

How This Bacteria Survived Outside the ISS for a Year Despite Exposure to Vacuum and Microgravity

Mission Gaganyaan: Training India’s Astronauts for Space Travel