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The station has all kinds of systems that make it possible for humans to survive in space and need repairs and maintenance: fans, air conditioners, electronic communications equipment, carbon ...
2014: Space stations in the video game Elite: Dangerous (and its prequels) rotate to create artificial gravity. 2015: Thunderbird 5 in the ITV TV show Thunderbirds Are Go features a rotating gravity ring section on the space station which features a glass floor to observe the Earth below. The series is set in the year 2060.
The Int-Ball was designed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and is controlled and monitored by a team of JAXA ground controllers. [4] [5] The Int-Ball naturally floats in the station's zero-gravity environment, allowing it to maneuver freely within the ISS. It weighs 1 kg (2.2 lb), and is 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter.
2001: A Space Odyssey. Museum replica model of the Discovery One, the main spaceship featured in 2001. The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient in light of subsequent developments around the world. Before the film's production began, director Stanley Kubrick ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space station astronauts have finally hit the big time, at least when it comes to the big screen. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly told The Associated Press on Wednesday that ...
International Space Station. The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). The ISS is the largest space station ever ...
Space toilet. A space toilet or zero-gravity toilet is a toilet that can be used in a weightless environment. In the absence of weight, the collection and retention of liquid and solid waste is directed by use of airflow. Since the air used to direct the waste is returned to the cabin, it is filtered beforehand to control odor and cleanse bacteria.
Proposed Nautilus-X International space station centrifuge demo concept, 2011. Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation. [1] Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference (the ...