Spaceflight leaves astronauts at risk for negative consequences to bone health. Sending a manned mission to Mars is a long term goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Because this trip will take ...

Spaceflight leaves astronauts at risk for negative consequences to bone health. A long term mission of NASA has been to send a manned mission to mars. Taking over a month for astronauts to reach Mars, long term effects ...

With commercial space travel on the horizon, it is necessary to understand how the microgravity environment present in space impacts bone in conjunction with the osteoporotic effects of aging. The microgravity environment ...

Human health outside of the Earth’s atmosphere has become a greater concern as humans have lived on the International Space station for over 20 years. Radiation poses a risk to astronaut health, yet there is little research ...

Intermuscular bone is a type of bone unique to teleosts such as North Atlantic herring. It is formed by the intramembranous ossification of myoseptal tendons, which makes it less cartilaginous in nature. The combinations ...

NASA has been looking into new technology for long duration space flight to Mars. Space travel has many unknowns and dangers that are both visible and invisible. Once outside of Earth's radiation shielding atmosphere, ...

One of the many missions of NASA is to develop a safer agent of space travel for astronauts. According to NASA, the average astronaut will be exposed to anywhere between 50 and 2,000 mGy of effective radiation. In a more ...

With NASA aiming for human exploration missions to deep space and Mars, the dangers of radiation exposure become ever more concerning. Outside of Earth’s atmosphere, astronauts are no longer shielded by Earth’s atmosphere. ...

As NASA prepares to venture deeper into space and increase spaceflight duration, sources of potential harm for astronaut health must be explored. Galactic Cosmic Radiation (GCR), a primary source of radiation from the Milky ...

Casting bones is the current method for setting bones after they are broken to dissuade movement and ensure optimal conditions for bone healing. Casting, however, is a cause for concern because bone mineral density can ...