Comments on: New research confirms long term bone loss during long missions in weightlessness https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 23:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1341256 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 23:03:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1341256 Andi asked: “That microgravity R&D could still be done in the hub of a spinning station., couldn’t it?”

It isn’t so hard to have a despun section. Plenty of early spinning satellites had these, so it isn’t just science fiction.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340959 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 05:03:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340959 Andi asked: “That microgravity R&D could still be done in the hub of a spinning station., couldn’t it?”

Why?

If you need microgravity, you set up for that. Don’t need a legacy ‘Do Everything Installation’. Many functional ways to do R &D in NEO, and many ways to get there.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340841 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 11:58:46 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340841 Andi,

I thought of that. There would be limits.
Any small relative motion as the hub itself rotates would have to be accounted for.

Non-spinning hubs, with rotating spokes and wheels is a bigger tech problem. And “commuting” from the spinning stations to a non-spinning station for work would be expensive.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340827 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 09:40:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340827 That microgravity R&D could still be done in the hub of a spinning station., couldn’t it?

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340805 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 03:15:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340805 Spinning stations will be a must eventually.

How are they going to compromise with the the apparent desire for microgravity R&D for manufacturing.

Will be interesting to watch.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340797 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 02:55:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340797 Wheel stations please.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340564 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:43:28 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340564 In reply to Michael McNeil.

Michael McNeil: Thank you. Fixed.

]]> By: Michael McNeil https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-research-confirms-long-term-bone-loss-during-long-missions-in-weightlessness/#comment-1340554 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:09:43 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=86045#comment-1340554 Typo alert (minor): 1st paragraph: should be “can take” rather than “can takes”

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