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Why don't spaceships rotate to cause artificial gravity? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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We all know the pictures of the astronauts on the ISS floating around. We also suspect that a lack of gravity is bad for the body as the muscles go weak and such.

Why don't spaceships just rotate to cause the effect of artificial gravity through centrifugal forces?

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[–] 10 points 7 months ago

There's a rotating spaceship in a parking lot in Japan. 20 years ago NASA paid Japan to build the Centrifuge Accomodations Module for the ISS, but Congress cut the $100m it was going to cost to launch it, so it's next to some bushes with bird poop on it.

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