Artificial Gravity

This book reviews the principle and rationale for using artificial gravity during space missions, and describes the current options proposed, including a short-radius centrifuge contained within a spacecraft. Experts provide recommendations on the research needed to assess whether or not short-radius centrifuge workouts can help limit deconditioning of physiological systems. Many detailed illustrations are included.

What Is Artificial Gravity The production of an inertial force that simulates the effects of a gravitational force, often by rotation, is known as the generation of artificial gravity.Instead of the force experienced in linear acceleration, which, according to the equivalence principle, cannot be differentiated from gravity, artificial gravity, also known as rotational gravity, is the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference.The term "artificial gravity" may also be used to refer to the impact of linear acceleration, such as that produced by a rocket engine. This is a broader definition of the term. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Artificial gravity Chapter 2: Inertial frame of reference Chapter 3: Centrifuge Chapter 4: Equatorial bulge Chapter 5: g-force Chapter 6: Micro-g environment Chapter 7: Fictitious force Chapter 8: Mars Gravity Biosatellite Chapter 9: Momentum exchange tether Chapter 10: Mission: Space Chapter 11: Colonization of the asteroids Chapter 12: Gravity of Earth Chapter 13: Orbiting Frog Otolith Chapter 14: Liquid-mirror space telescope Chapter 15: Rotating wheel space station Chapter 16: High-g training Chapter 17: Weightlessness Chapter 18: Centrifugal force Chapter 19: Absolute rotation Chapter 20: Neuroscience in space Chapter 21: Locomotion in space (II) Answering the public top questions about artificial gravity. (III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial gravity in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial gravity' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial gravity.

The success of any space flight mission depends not only on advanced technology but also on the health and well-being of crew members. This book, written by an astronaut physician, is the first practical guide to maintaining crew members health in space. It combines research results with practical advice on such problems as bone loss, kidney stones, muscle wasting, motion sickness, loss of balance, orthostatic intolerance, weight loss, and excessive radiation exposure. Additional topics include pre-flight preparation, relevant gender differences, long-duration medical planning, post-flight rehabilitation, and the physiology of extra-vehicular activity. Designed as a handbook for space crews, this text is also an invaluable tool for all the engineers, medical personnel, and scientists who plan and execute space missions.

A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried out on human missions to Mars, but after 60 years of study, we remain in the early planning stages. The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. Retained from the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return. For each segment, he analyzes requirements for candidate technologies. In this connection, he discusses the status and potential of a wide range of elements critical to a human Mars mission, including life support consumables, radiation effects and shielding, microgravity effects, abort options and mission safety, possible habitats on the Martian surface and aero-assisted orbit entry decent and landing. For any human mission to the Red Planet the possible utilization of any resources indigenous to Mars would be of great value and such possibilities, the use of indigenous resources is discussed at length. He also discusses the relationship of lunar exploratio n to Mars exploration. Detailed appendices describe the availability of solar energy on the Moon and Mars, and the potential for utilizing indigenous water on Mars. The second edition provides extensive updating and additions to the first edition, including many new figures and tables, and more than 70 new references, as of 2015.

Gravity and Gravitation is a physics book that is written in a form that is easy to understand for high school and beginning college students, as well as science buffs. It is based on the lessons from the School for Champions educational website.The book explains the principles of gravity and gravitation, shows derivations of important gravity equations, and provides applications of those equations. It also compares the different theories of gravitation, from those of Newton to Einstein to present-day concepts.