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Time To Get Serious About Gravity

A critical question regarding the settlement of space has been ignored for decades. When will we find out what partial gravity does to humans?

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Jul 22, 2023
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When the question of space colonisation arises, the impacts of long ISS flights on astronauts is sometimes raised as a criticism. The obvious problem with this is that nobody is proposing to colonise a weightless environment - all suggestions are for surface bases on the Moon/Mars or for rotating habitats in space that provide gravity. But, especially f…

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