Bone and Robotics Research Informing Future Missions as Crew Nears Departure
City lights sparkle across the southern United States in this photograph from the International Space Station is it orbited into a sunrise 260 miles above Florida. In the right foreground, is a set of the orbital outpost’s main solar arrays augmented by a smaller set of roll out solar arrays.NASA The Expedition 73 crew kicked off the week studying how to live and work in space during long-term missions including staying healthy in weightlessness and operating planetary robots from a spacecraft. The seven International Space Station (ISS) residents also replaced flight hardware and continued preparing for a crew swap beginning at the end of the month. The lack of gravity on an astronaut’s body is a key issue scientists study everyday helping NASA and its international partners plan safe and successful long-term missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Without being weighed down to the ground, crews move around in microgravity with...