Countermeasure · Space Medicine

Artificial Gravity

Spinning a spacecraft or a short-radius centrifuge to create an outward force that mimics gravity. A long-studied but not yet operational countermeasure that could address many effects of weightlessness at once.

Space Medicine

Highlights

›Could counter many effects at once — not yet operational

Mitigates

The physiological effects this countermeasure targets.

Bone density loss
Muscle atrophy
Cardiovascular Deconditioning
Fluid shift and vision changes

Knowledge connections

Member of groupSpace Medicine
MitigatesBone density loss
MitigatesMuscle atrophy
MitigatesCardiovascular Deconditioning
MitigatesFluid shift and vision changes
Associated withThe Deep-Space Transit Habitat

Sources

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