Lung health, algae and radiation research on Space Station
Join us as we look back at the past two weeks of European science on the International Space Station. These were also the last two weeks in space for NASA ...
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ESA has selected the new Swedish Aerospace Physiology Centre of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to support the Agency’s human research efforts with astronauts on the International Space Station.
ESA’s Directorate for Human Spaceflight and Operations will delegate technical work to the centre as part of the European LIfe and Physical Sciences in Space programme, or ELIPS. Human research is one of the main fields of ELIPS.
More than 30 human research experiments are currently selected under ELIPS and will be performed on the only space laboratory available to humankind. On average, around seven are running continuously in Europe’s Columbus laboratory and other Station modules.
ESA experiments on the Space Station are based on proposals from European researchers across all domains. ESA will select more projects in the International Life Science Research Announcement, due to be issued in late 2013, to augment the European human research portfolio up to 2020. Medical experts from the Swedish Aerospace Physiology Centre will provide scientific coordination.
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ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano installing experiment hardware on Space Station
Follow the ESA website for more information about the next round of research opportunities on the International Space Station. The Station is the only way to study the effects of living in space on the human body. The out-of-this-world laboratory offers scientists a benchmark to compare physiological processes in microgravity with those on the ground, and is preparing humans for exploration beyond Earth orbit.
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Getting ready for Mars – on the Space Station
From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars.
Clocks, gravity, and the limits of relativity
11/11/24: Click here for up-to-date information on the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space.The International Space Station will host the most precise clocks ever to leave Earth. Accurate to a second in 300 million years the clocks will push the measurement of time to test the limits of the theory of relativity and our understanding of gravity.
Fake plastic atoms
Our world is made of atoms and molecules, but even with the most powerful microscopes we can only see snapshots, never how they move and interact with each other. To model how atoms behave, researchers have been using plastic particles in weightlessness and the latest batch of results are returning to Earth with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in a Soyuz spacecraft on Thursday.
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Swedish Aerospace Physiology Centre
Swedish Aerospace Physiology Centre
International Space Station science reports
This is ISS status report #167 from the European Space Agency outlining ESA’s science-related activities that have taken place on the ISS during the past two weeks for different European experiments and experiment facilities.
International Space Station Benefits for Humanity
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ESA BR-300 ELIPS: Research in space for the future
This brochure gives an overview of the wide range of research the European Space Agency is performing under the unique conditions found in space.Read online
Erasmus Experiment Archive
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