This reminds me of the Scott and Mark Kelly experiment. Scott went up to the ISS for an extreme duration mission (1 year), while his twin brother Mark, also an astronaut, stayed on earth. We are able to see what genetic changes have occured due to the stay in space. I wonder what papers have come out studying that.
Yes, thank you for the link! I should add that in Scott Kelly's book Endurance he detailed to what lengths they went to collect specimens (blood, urine, saliva, etc). The urine collection was quite challenging in microgravity.
I really wonder why by this time we don't seriously consider an experiment with a centrifuge creating an artificial gravity on ISS. One would thought medical experiments like that are an important part of ISS mission. It does conflicts with some other research topics, which is the main argument for why it's not yet done, but by now it could be done without disturbing micro-gravity too much - there are options - and the topic itself is important enough so the arguments to contrary are wearing thin.
To be clear, are you talking about building a centrifuge attached to the ISS that's large and safe enough for humans to spend time in? Because that seems like an absolutely massive engineering effort, probably comparable to the work that went into the ISS itself.
It's either mechanically connected to ISS, which has some advantages and disadvantages, or is a separate module which closely follows ISS on the same orbit but is not mechanically connected to ISS, which of course also has advantages and disadvantages.
No, it's not going to be absolutely massive engineering effort... why do you think it will?
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No, it's not going to be absolutely massive engineering effort... why do you think it will?
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