What happens to the human heart in space? - Parabolic flights provide some answers (original) (raw)

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• Beckers, Frank ;
• Verheyden, Bart ;
• Plester, Vladimir

Abstract

Aircraft parabolic flights provide up to 20 seconds of reduced gravity repeatedly during ballistic flight manoeuvres. They are used to conduct short microgravity investigations in the physical- and life-sciences, to test instrumentation and to train astronauts for forthcoming space flights. The real value of parabolic flights lies, however, in the verification tests that can be conducted prior to taking experiments into space, in order to improve their quality and success rate.

Publication:

ESA Bulletin

Pub Date:

August 2004

Bibcode:

2004ESABu.119...30A

Keywords:

• Space Missions