Centrifuge Accommodations Module
The Centrifuge Accommodations Module (CAM) is a cancelled element of the International Space Station. Although the module was planned to contain several parts, the centrifuge still was considered the most important capability of the module. History The centrifuge would have provided controlled acceleration rates (artificial gravity) for experiments and the capability to: *Expose a variety of biological specimens that are less than tall to artificial gravity levels between 0.01g and 2g. *Simultaneously provide two different artificial gravity levels. *Provide partial g and hyper g environment for specimens to investigate altered gravity effects and g-thresholds. *Provide short duration and partial g and hyper g environment for specimens to investigate temporal effects of gravity exposure. *Provide Earth simulation environment on ISS to isolate microgravity effects on specimens. *Provide Earth simulation environment on ISS to allow specimens to recover from microgravity effects. ...
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ISS Centrifuge Accommodations Module
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields. The ISS is suited for testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for possible future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The ISS programme evolved from the Space Station ''Freedom'', a 1984 American proposal to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting station, and the contemporaneous Soviet/Russian ''Mir-2'' proposal from 1976 with similar aims. The ISS is the ninth space station to be i ...
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