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considered the most fundamental aspect of a successful mission. In order to study the effects of weightlessness and radiation in a deep space environment, NASA launches a government funded space station into high earth orbit. The astronaut’s medical health is studied over a six month period, as their bodies adapt to the low gravity environment and radiation becomes a crucial concern. Weightlessness and radiation exposure are two of the primary

For each of the questions asked, copy and paste the best 3 student responses (change the text to red) and explain why they were outstanding in your opinion. Gravity is often defined incorrectly in dictionaries and textbooks... How would you define gravity? Gravity is an attractive force that acts between any two objects. The greater the mass of an object, the stronger the gravitational force. Some textbooks define gravity as the pull towards the center of the Earth, but another way to define it

Zero gravity can be something fun to experience, but it can also have some bad effects on humans. Zero gravity or weightlessness happens when the effects of gravity are not experienced. Humans have been experiencing zero gravity since the year 1961 when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. Zero gravity has became something humans experience for fun. For example there is a company called Zero G and they they allow people to pay money to go up in a plane and experience

Jeng Woo Park ESS 102 AD Research Paper The Effects of Long-Term Space Flight In the year 2121, Jay and his crew took flight into space. Jay’s mission was to reach a potentially habitable exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b, to colonize and recreate civilization after the nuclear destruction of Earth in 2028. With years of planning and preparing, he gathered one hundred of the brightest and healthiest men and women he could find and built a space craft that could travel at 0.8 of the speed of light.

Nicholas Brunelle 10/21/16 ESS 102 Research Paper – Rough draft Summary: My science fiction paper will describe the struggles and accomplishments of a future mission to mars with the goal of producing a habitable base on the surface for extended stay and experimentation, written in a series of journal entries by the crew. The mission will be a long term journey, having used research to compensate for the effects of space travel on the human body to allow for a longer term residence, spurred by the

Meghan Stavig ESS102 Research Paper 1/17/2015 Effects of Long Term Space Flight We’ve all heard about the rigorous mental and physical tests that astronaut candidates must go through in order to be considered to be sent into space; but what is the methodology behind them? What most laymen’s’ overlook when they think ‘Astronaut’ is the extreme physical and mental taxation that is associated with space flight. Astronauts will have to endure long-term isolation, monotony, limited mobility and close

vacuum of space, we die within minutes. Over the years scientists have developed technologies that help protect us against the deadly features of space, but in reality it only shields us from about fifty percent of all of the harmful effects. Weightlessness changes us physically, while isolation alters us mentally. Space changes the life of any human including the way we travel from place to place, our sleeping and eating habits, and the amount of exercise needed. Traveling to space has many effects

Kimberly Shim ESS 102 AE Effect of Long Term Space Flight Summary of Sci Fi Paper After decades of trying to send humans to Mars, thousands of years later humans have finally formed a colony on Mars. After generations of living on the new planet, humans have adapted to the different conditions of being away from Earth. The story will follow new people’s lives on Mars and what happens when some leave Mars to go back to Earth. The effects of travelling in space on the human body is a subject that

Gabriela V. Condarco-Quesada Jan. 23, 2015 Research Paper Draft Effects of Long Term Space Flight Since NASA’s inception in 1958, more missions have been attempted to Mars than any other place in the solar system besides the moon [1]. However, despite the number of attempts and robotic explorations made to Mars, we have yet to send humans to this red planet. Explanations for this lack of human presence can be attributed to the obstacles faced by scientists; from the technical issues that need to

Dai 1 Zeqing Dai Dr. Erika Harnett Ess 102 Space and space travel 20 October 2016 Effects of long-term space flight on human The main plot the science fiction paper includes a trip to a planet out of the solar system, including a record of the long flight to the destination and a description of the scenarios after landing on the plant. Discussion of space debris, space hazards, effect of long term space flight will be the main aspects in the record of the flight alongside with an introduction of