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The ISS is, primarily, our single microgravity laboratory. Giving it gravity would make it unfit for that role. (NASA could duplicate the radiation and confine
by emiliobumachar 9y ago
The ISS is, primarily, our single microgravity laboratory. Giving it gravity would make it unfit for that role.
(NASA could duplicate the radiation and confinement here on Earth relatively easily, if not for the ethical issues. These seem to not matter as much when compensated with the privilege of going to space. But making gravity on space just to hack an ethically acceptable experiment would start to get ridiculous.)
- justin66 9y ago> The ISS is, primarily, our single microgravity laboratory. Giving it gravity would make it unfit for that role. Centripetal force is not truly gravity. This is useful because a station simulating gravity by spinning can still have areas that are isolated from this force (the center).