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Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?

Scott Manley · Youtube · 3 HN points · 4 HN comments
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Artificial gravity for spaceflight is a concept older than spaceflight itself, but we've only ever seen one small scale test ever flown in space. However decades of research have been performed to show that the human body can adapt to the conditions required for rotating artificial gravity. This shows that it's an engineering problem that likely solvable for interested parties who want to spend the time, effort and money creating the classic rotating space stations from Science Fiction.


Here's a couple of papers which were heavily referenced in researching this
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720019454/downloads/19720019454.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730003384/downloads/19730003384.pdf

The Voyager space station video is from the Gateway Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfq9IoUJBIKORP6Q0Zp4dIg

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YouTuber Scott Manley has a great video on artificial gravity in space, including concepts that resemble the article's proposal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxeMoaxUpWk

Before I watched the video, I didn't know the Soviet Union tested a (small) centrifuge for artificial gravity in space back in the 70s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_782

Does this address the Coriolis effect and other issues that make rotational "gravity" feel really weird compared to actual gravity (6:58 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxeMoaxUpWk)?
Scott Manley did a video looking at this, it’s a good and informative watch:

https://youtu.be/nxeMoaxUpWk

The gist is that is actually doable at the same(ish) scale as the ISS. Bigger is better but we can do it at a radius as little at 40m.

Aug 17, 2021 · 3 points, 0 comments · submitted by amichail
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