The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2638: Artificial Gravity Episode: 2638 Artificial Gravity for Human Spaceflight; What is Gained, What is Lost. Today, astronaut Michael Barratt discusses ...

GALVESTON, Texas — When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon 40 years ago this week, they showed no ill effects from seven days spent in weightlessness. But as American astronauts and Soviet ...

Rotating habitats and artificial gravity are a staple of science fiction movies and TV shows, but the realities of space travel means that someday we'll have to get serious about artificial gravity to ...

Artificial gravity provides a healthier environment for long-term stays in space. With a large spinning structure, the resulting centrifugal force creates a gravity-like pull. Today, Vast is ...

Random stroke of curiosity regarding human space-flight on long-duration transfer orbits (e.g. Earth to Mars): What issues of health or habitation would be mitigated by maintaining some minimal amount ...

Living and working in space for extended periods of time presents a number of challenges. These include radiation, as locations beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere are exposed to greater levels of ...

Lying around may not seem particularly brave, but the study participants have to stay in bed without sitting up for 60 days and occasionally go for a spin in a giant centrifuge. Share on Facebook ...

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.