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There was a plan to have a 'spinning module' on the ISS, but NASA cancelled it. NASA has never really supported artificial gravity, likely because none of the N
by nickff 5y ago
There was a plan to have a 'spinning module' on the ISS, but NASA cancelled it. NASA has never really supported artificial gravity, likely because none of the NASA Centers is really focused on it.
- qayxc 5y ago> likely because none of the NASA Centers is really focused on it. That's what I thought until I started looking into it. The module has actually been built (several versions in fact), but never completed and launched. It turned out during tests and simulations that the station's structural integrity was at risk and so it was decided not to attach a centrifuge to it. Whether these concerns were warranted I cannot say, but engineers at NASA deemed it too risky to try.