Spacegeek8
Spacegeek8 t1_iuaapzt wrote
Reply to comment by Adeldor in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
Sure. But the point still stands. All the data suggests that this is a minor issue at worst compared to all the other health and engineering challenges for Mars.
Spacegeek8 t1_iua655d wrote
Reply to comment by Adeldor in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
All of the research on this concentrates on returning to the relative hypergravity environment of Mars after the 6 month micro-G transit trip.
Even bedrest studies do not replicate the real microG environment because of the transverse loading on the bones that induces iconoclasts to maintain some bone mineral density.
Small 80# people don’t have issues with gaining muscle mass in 1G if they eat enough food and exercise.
All of this points to the fact that collectively the research strongly suggests that even a little bit of gravity is enough to strongly mitigate the historical issues with space flight in microG. So much so that NASA isn’t really too concerned with 1/6 long term. 1/3 gravity is barely a concern at all, except it being too high after a long Mars transit.
Spacegeek8 t1_iua0bmc wrote
Reply to comment by DNathanHilliard in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
1/3 gravity would be pretty fine physiologically speaking. There is pretty decent data on this. The gravity would be the least of the problems on Mars.
Spacegeek8 t1_ja06nc5 wrote
Reply to Every space crew needs a mission patch. This company has designed NASA's for 50 years by koavf
Not really design … just manufacture. Design is usually done in-house as far as I know