Astronauts test new camera with floating water ball

NASA is looking at astronaut’s mental stability is necessary to explore space, and has taken the issue very seriously and will fund the study which will examine changes in structure and functioning of brain and will also observe that how long it takes to recover after returning from space.

In this latest contest for the national 3D Space Container where NASA asked students who were participating in this contest to design innovative container models which may help astronauts preserve things in the same order when in space, proudly 2 Indian American teenagers are among the ten finalists. His Hydroponic Plant Box container answers the problem of containing water in a microgravity environment while still allowing plants to grow roots in it. It will be a “valuable new tool”, Kelly said according to the report.

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy designed a collapsible container.

Ryan, an eighth-grader at Scotts Valley Middle School, won an astronaut-guided tour of the space shuttle Endeavor in Los Angeles and a VIP tour of SpaceX. Inspiration struck one day while he was clipping his fingernails. Students across the U.S. spent their time during the summer submitting their designs with the ultimate goal of advancing human space exploration on the worldwide Space Station.

Astronauts are tested after arriving on the station, in the mid-period and at the end of the six-month mission. Since astronauts use a lot of containers, a competition like this makes sense.

“The simplest tasks on Earth can be quite challenging, and even risky, in space”, said Niki Werkheiser, NASA’s In-Space Manufacturing project manager.

As the grand prize victor, Ryan will receive a one-on-one tour of the space shuttle Endeavor with an astronaut, plus a tour of SpaceX.

While NASA says that hydroponics, a growing technique which replaces soil with other mediums such as volcanic rock and expanded clay, would be effective in spacecrafts because plants grow faster, stronger and it all requires less space, the space agency also experiments with a more advanced technique known as aeroponics.