• Space environment is a branch of astronautics, aerospace engineering and space physics that seeks to understand and address conditions existing in space...
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    acronym RIDGE (i.e., "space radiation, isolation and confinement, distance from Earth, gravity fields, and hostile and closed environments"). The engineering...
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    Space sustainability aims to maintain the safety and health of the space environment, as well as planetary environments. Similar to sustainability initiatives...
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  • weightless environment of space, anticipating some of the benefits of engaging in sex in an environment of microgravity. On July 23, 2006, a Sex in Space panel...
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    asteroids. There are several motivating factors behind in-space manufacturing. The space environment, in particular the effects of microgravity and vacuum...
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    The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), named the Space Environment Center (SEC) until 2007, is a laboratory and service center of the US National...
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    especially those involving zero gravity and exposure to space, but space stations offer a long-term environment where studies can be performed potentially for...
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  • astrobiological research, space exploration and space flight. It deals with practical contemporary issues like the protection of the space environment and hypothetical...
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    The term "space weather" came into usage in the late 1950s as the space age began and satellites began to measure the space environment. The term regained...
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  • Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Effects of spaceflight on the human body Space environment Space science Weightlessness Rycroft, M. J. (14 June 1989). "Solar—terrestrial...
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    and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and a reference to the messenger god Mercury...
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    Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) — were all designed for a three-year mission. The Space Environment Monitor (SEM/2) is fitted to the satellite and is composed of Total...
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    studied, the built environment often highlights the connection between physical space and social consequences. It impacts the environment and how society...
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    heat. For use in space, polyimide (e.g. Kapton, UPILEX) substrate is usually chosen due to its resistance to the hostile space environment, large temperature...
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    different regions of the Sun, interplanetary space, and geospace; an applied science Space Environment Testbeds program where protocols and components...
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    European Space Agency's Space Environment statistics reported 40230 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth regularly tracked by Space Surveillance...
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    Spaceplane (redirect from Space plane)
    cells, maneuvered in space, kept in thermal equilibrium, oriented, and communicated with. On-orbit thermal and radiological environments impose additional...
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    an applied sub-discipline of botany that is the study of plants in space environments. It is a branch of astrobiology and botany. Astrobotany concerns both...
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    The use of tardigrades in space, first proposed in 1964 because of their extreme tolerance to radiation, began in 2007 with the FOTON-M3 mission in low...
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    noted that the plots of space operas have sometimes been taken from horse operas and simply translated into an outer space environment, as famously parodied...
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    in preparation for the conditions of launch as well as the harsh environment of space. This training aims to prepare the crew for events falling under...
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    reached all of the known planets in the Solar System. Outer space represents a challenging environment for human exploration because of the hazards of vacuum...
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    environment outside a planetary atmosphere Space tourism – Human space travel for recreation Space warfare – Combat that takes place in outer space Alien...
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    prevention of harmful interference with space activities and the environment, the notification and registration of space activities, scientific investigation...
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    the physical processes and properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists...
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    Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) or space sickness is a condition experienced by as many as half of all space travelers during their adaptation to weightlessness...
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    cross sections allow NASA to predict space environments and organ exposure that may be encountered on long-duration space missions. The lack of knowledge of...
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    and space environment monitoring (SEM) instruments. The SXI provides high-cadence monitoring of large scale solar structures to support the Space Environment...
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    in space (also anthropogenic presence in space or humanity in space) is the direct and mediated presence or telepresence of humans in outer space, and...
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    possibility of safely flying in space within a controlled environment, and provided data on how living beings react to space flight. Later flights with cameras...
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