SciShow Space takes you behind the scenes of astronaut training, to show how crew members and their equipment are tested in microgravity, all while never having to leave Earth.
Hosted by Reid Reimers
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Sources:
Microgravity:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/shuttlestation/station/microgex.html
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/what-is-microgravity-58.html#.U9HfZ_ldVr8
Space robots:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/space/11robo.html
Space robot mockups in neutral buoyancy labs:
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/transcript/hadfield-nbl1.asp
The science of neutral buoyancy (see Appendix B):
http://www.raytheon.com.au/rtnwcm/groups/public/documents/content/raumissionbriefingmaterials.pdf
Parabolic flight:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Human_Spaceflight_Research/Parabolic_flights2
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/figure/F1/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/
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