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Stable foams and unstable muscles – a month of European Space Station science

Posted on Monday June 8th, 2020 by julien

European experiments have been looking at how human muscles react to living in weightlessness or used the lack of gravity’s pull to investigate foams. A recap of the European science run on the International Space Station in May. The Myotones experiment is testing the biomechanical properties of astronauts’ muscles and tendons and how they change […]

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European science continues after Beyond

Posted on Friday March 6th, 2020 by julien

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano returned to Earth 5 February after setting new European spaceflight records, but European science continues in space. Many facilities run continuously in the background on the International Space Station, steadily gathering more data in weightlessness for researchers on Earth.

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