Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Science |
Department |
Biology |
Creator |
Carrier, David R. |
Other Author |
Watts, Philip |
Title |
Human flight and exercise in microgravity |
Date |
2000 |
Description |
Early experimenters in human flight learned, sometimes with fatal consequences, that the human body lacks the muscular power to fly (1). Indeed, the power demands are so great that only relatively small animals (less than 12 kg) are able to fly actively due to the interplay of morphologic scaling (muscle mass, wing area, power output) and organism weight (2). But this might not be true in a space station. Could humans fly in air when subject to microgravity? How demanding would such flight be? |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
International Society for Gravitational Physiology |
Volume |
7 |
Issue |
2 |
First Page |
31 |
Last Page |
34 |
Subject |
Human flight; Microgravity |
Subject LCSH |
Flight; Reduced gravity environments; Exercise; Space stations |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Watts, P., & Carrier, D. R. (2000). Human flight and exercise in microgravity. Journal of Gravitational Physiology, 7(2), 31-4. |
Rights Management |
(c)International Society for Gravitational Physiology |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
413,988 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,8798 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s68630tz |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
704983 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68630tz |