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If groundbreaking science happened on the ISS and someone wanted to know what it was, couldn't find it, asked, and nobody provided any examples or references de
by harry8 5y ago
If groundbreaking science happened on the ISS and someone wanted to know what it was, couldn't find it, asked, and nobody provided any examples or references despite it being pretty attractive to most of us? (The idea of doing science in the zero g of orbit). If that were the case I'd have to start updating my prior that groundbreaking science did happen. Let's see how that plays out over the next few days. But from my perspective it's just fan trivia. I will never go nor have any influence on funding decisions.
- gusgus01 5y agoI'm not sure what is considered groundbreaking science, but a lot, a majority of science even, is not groundbreaking. But offhand, the ISS provides us the ability to monitor the difference that microgravity has on humans, eg the twin study they've done as well as other studies on blood pooling and muscle loss. If we plan to ever have long term missions in space, like Elon Musk and his mars aspirations, then the ISS is an important stepping stone to understand the implications on human health and experience managing humans in space. It's pretty easy using Google to find some of the research that people have thought was notable: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/five-things-the-iss-has-done-for-us/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/five-things-the-iss-has-d... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03085-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03085-8