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Spacelab
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Astronaut David C. Hilmers conducts the Microgravity Vestibular Investigations (MVI) sitting in its rotator chair inside the IML-1 science module. When environmental conditions change so that the body receives new stimuli, the nervous system responds by interpreting the incoming sensory information differently. In space, the free-fall environment of an orbiting spacecraft requires that the body adapts to the virtual absence of gravity.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSpacelab. NASA/MSFC, 1992-01-01. Public domain. ID: 9251498.
