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Definition of microgravity
: a condition in space in which only minuscule forces are experienced : virtual absence of gravity; broadly : a condition of weightlessness
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In that time, astronauts have walked on the moon and even endured more than a year in microgravity.
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Many veteran travelers claim microgravity is the best mattress.
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The science gear includes, of all things, a number of fruit flies for an experiment aimed at improving our understanding of the effects on the heart of lengthy exposure to microgravity.
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Since then, the number of experiments conducted aboard the station has ballooned, and astronauts and cosmonauts spend their days studying how terrestrial science and technology works in microgravity.
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Yuri’s Night Bay Area is organized by Marcia Fiamengo, a microgravity scientist and nuclear engineer who has worked on water filtration systems used in the International Space Station.
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Goel hypothesizes that microgravity will speed up to the evolution of MRSA, granting scientists on Earth a look into the future of where the bacterium is heading, to better plan against it.
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The leading theory was that it was somehow connected to the redistribution of vascular fluids (blood and lymph) in microgravity.
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Western groups pushing private moon launches, deep-space probes, and microgravity experiments all aim to take advantage of Russian-launch options.
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First Known Use of microgravity
1974
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