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Why doesn't the International Space Station rotate to create artificial gravity like stations in the movies?

FROM THE February 2015 ISSUE

Why doesn't the International Space Station rotate to create artificial gravity like stations in the movies?

Chris Querin, Lower Lake, California

Published: Monday, December 29, 2014

RELATED TOPICS: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

The International Space Station is a one-of-a-kind lab-oratory for a specific reason: microgravity. There is no other facility in existence that allows humans to conduct research in a sustained and stable microgravity environment where many disciplines, from material science to microbiology, encounter exciting new results.

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