Talk:Centrifuge Accommodations Module

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In what context? What is this part of?

It was planned to be a part of the International Space Station. But, due in part do the Space Shuttle problems and cost, was cancelled.Ingres77 20:48, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ==Specific Uses==

I don't know what specific uses were planned for this vehicle, so I hesitate to put this in the article, but an interesting use would have been to grow an animal from pre-natal to adulthood in 2g. I imagine it would develop a very low-center-of-balance skeleton, and very strong muscular system. [Such an animal would have the time of its life if returned to normal gravity, but would probably come to suffer aches as its body would not be designed for 1g. Certain body areas designed to "push upward" (such as the lower back in humans) would be over-developed in such an animal, and at 1g, they would be constantly pushing up too hard. Sometimes astronauts suffer lower back aches after a time while weightless.]Tragic romance 06:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The Space Station Biological Research Program was to have been located in this module. Biological experiments contrasting a zero-gravity environment with a gravitational environment would have been possible by running two identical experiments, one in a holding rack and one in the centrifuge. --Skylax 23:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)