Drop Towers and Terrestrial bed rest studies

Drop Towers

• ESA information about the ZARM drop tower at Bremmen, Germany.
• List of European drop towers and general microgravity facilities (for researchers)
• Information from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
• NASA Drop tower and Drop tube infromation and more general microgravity simulation page
• NASA 'history of drop towers'

Bed rest studies and other terrestrial microgravity simulations

• Press release for ESA's Toulose bed rest study
• More detailed information about the Toulose study
• The effect of nutritional suplements during bed rest, taken from spaceref.com
• NASA information detailing the contributions of to the understanding of aging
• Bed rest news story from CNN
  

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