Artificial Gravity

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. The Gravity Of The Situation

   • Gilles Clément, Angie Bukley, William Paloski

   Pages 1-32

3. Physics of Artificial Gravity

   • Angie Bukley, William Paloski, Gilles Clément

   Pages 33-58

4. History of Artificial Gravity

   • Gilles Clément, Angie Bukley, William Paloski

   Pages 59-93

5. Physiological Targets of Artificial Gravity: The Sensory-Motor System

   • Eric Groen, Andrew Clarke, Willem Bles, Floris Wuyts, William Paloski, Gilles Clément

   Pages 95-136

6. Physiological Targets of Artificial Gravity: The Cardiovascular System

   • Guglielmo Antonutto, Gilles Clément, Guido Ferretti, Dag Linnarsson, Anne Pavy-Le Traon, Pietro Di Prampero

   Pages 137-162

7. Physiological Targets of Artificial Gravity: The Neuromuscular System

   • Mario Narici, Jochen Zange, Pietro Di Prampero

   Pages 163-190

8. Phyysiological Targets of Artificial Gravity: Adaptive Processes in Bone

   • Jörn Rittweger

   Pages 191-231

9. Interactions Among the Vestibular, Autonomic, and Skeletal Systems in Artificial Gravity

   • Pierre Denise, Hervé Normand, Scott Wood

   Pages 233-247

10. Interactions Among Artificial Gravity, The Affected Physiological Systems, and Nutrition

    • Martina Heer, Nathalie Baecker, Sara Zwart, Scott Smith

    Pages 249-270

11. Artificial Gravity And The Immune System Function

    • Satish Mehta, Brian Crucian, Duane Pierson, Clarence Sams, Raymond Stowe

    Pages 271-286

12. Medical, Psychological, and Environmental Issues of Artificial Gravity

    • Jeffrey Jones, Randal Reinertson, William Paloski

    Pages 287-314

13. Safety Issues in Artificial Gravity Studies

    • John Byard, Larry Meeker, Randal Reinertson, William Paloski

    Pages 315-334

14. Recommended Research

    • Joan Vernikos, William Paloski, Charles Fuller, Gilles Clèment

    Pages 335-356

15. Back Matter

    Pages 357-364

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William H. Paloski, Ph. D. Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office NASA Johnson Space Center Artificial gravity is an old concept, having gotten its start in the late in the 19th century when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, considered by many to be the father of the Russian space program, realized that the human body might not respond well to the free fall of orbital space flight. To solve this problem, he proposed that space stations be rotated to create centripetal accelerations that might provide inertial loading similar to terrestrial gravitational loading. Einstein later showed in his equivalence principle that acceleration is indeed indistinguishable from gravity. Subsequently, other individuals of note, including scientists like Werner von Braun as well as artists like Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, devised elaborate solutions for spinning vehicles to provide “artificial gravity” that would offset the untoward physiological consequences of spaceflight. By 1959, concerns about the then-unknown human responses to spaceflight drove NASA to consider the necessity of incorporating artificial gravity in its earliest human space vehicles. Of course, owing in part to the relatively short durations of the planned missions, artificial gravity was not used in the early NASA programs.

• Cardiovascular deconditioning
• Effects of weightlessness
• IAC Life Sciences Award
• Physiology in space
• Short-radius centrifuge
• Space mission planning
• environment
• history
• life sciences
• physiology
• planning
• safety
• science
• space
• space exploration

From the reviews:

"The book has grown out of the work of the ESA Topical Team on Artificial Gravity, which issued its Final Report in 2006. … provide a useful summary of artificial-gravity research. The extent to which microgravity affects different physiological systems differently, and the complex-manner in which they all interact, was a real eye-opener to me. … This would greatly increase its value as a resource for those engaged in the planning of future human space exploration." (Ian Crawford, The Observatory, Vol. 128 (1203), 2008)

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France

  Gilles Clément

• Ohio University, Athens, USA

  Gilles Clément, Angie Bukley

Gilles Clement is a neurophysiologist who has been involved in space research on astronauts since 25 years. He wrote "Fundamentals of Space Medicine” and "Fundamentals of Space Biology”. He is coordinating the vision of a group of international scientists, doctors and engineers for validating the implementation of artificial gravity for long-duration, exploratory missions.

Angie Bukley is an aerospace control systems engineer who has over 20 years experience in the aerospace business working with NASA, the US Department of Defense, and the Aerospace Corporation. She is currently the Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the Russ College of Engineering & Technology, Ohio University.

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