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- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Introduction
- 1 Microgravity and the ‘vomit comet’
- 2 The International Space Station
- 3 How astronauts get up there
- 4 How the ISS stays up there
- 5 Is there any gravity on the ISS?
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 An introduction to ageing
- 2 Ageing forecasts by country
- 3 Bed rest and ageing
- 4 Reducing the effects of ageing in a microgravity environment
- 5 Research on astronauts and the ageing process
- 6 Measuring your heart and respiration rates
- 7 Comparing the heart rates of animals and human beings
- 8 Preparing for the bread mold experiment
- 9 This week’s quiz
- 10 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Research areas and orders of magnitude
- 2 An introduction to quantum science
- 3 Diffraction of waves
- 4 Sodium D-lines and the hydrogen atom
- 5 Quantum energy levels
- 6 The double-slit experiment
- 7 LASER cooling: researching quantum effects
- 8 Gravity, timing and metrology
- 9 Communication and security
- 10 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Do weird physics effects also occur in nature?
- 2 Microgravity research and its impact
- 3 Travelling to Mars
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Microbes, bacteria and fungi
- 2 Your bread mold experiment and yeast
- 3 ‘Space bugs’
- 4 Random positioning machines
- 5 Can microbes survive elsewhere in the Universe?
- 6 The habitability of planets
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Felix Baumgartner’s record freefall jump
- 2 Using drop towers to simulate microgravity
- 3 Practical experiment 3
- 4 Forming planets: an introduction
- 5 Forming planets: using models
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How much does the ISS cost?
- 2 How much does space exploration cost NASA?
- 3 How much does space exploration cost the USA?
- 4 How much do space missions cost the world?
- 5 Space research and its impact on social issues and problems
- 6 Is there a difference between ‘good science’ and ‘bad science’?
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 The astronaut challenge
- 2 Astronauts: do you have what it takes?
- 3 Human exploration
- 4 Current and future microgravity research
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements
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