Sentence examples for weightless environment from inspiring English sources

Some experiments take advantage of the weightless environment.

"We set out to create a light, airy, weightless environment," said one of them, Blake Moore.

While they adapt to the weightless environment, astronauts' sensorimotor skills and balance are immediately thrown off.

It aims to test a method of attaching objects in the weightless environment of space.

But what are the challenges of running in a weightless environment?

Kapelonis and Smuts wanted to consider the spatial and architectural challenges of space flight and a weightless environment.

Humans are Earthlings, however: Any mission to Mars would take many months and human bones deteriorate in weightless environments.

Anabolic resistance is also frequently observed in critically ill patients [ 38], in patients on bed rest, or in people exposed to weightless environments (such as in space) [ 39].

Dr. James Lackner and two very sick research subjects aboard NASA's "Vomit Comet," a reduced-gravity aircraft that uses parabolic flight to produce a near-weightless environment.

(Researchers confirmed that the Vomit Comet abundantly lived up to its name). Thanks to surface tension in microgravity, pipette work proved easier in a near-weightless environment — "except when the pipette tips float away," said Dr. Andrew Feinberg, a scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studied how the space environment influenced the activity of Scott's genes.

And with NASA's current goal of sending humans to visit an asteroid, the weightless underwater environment is a rather realistic setting.