CMG Showing Promise For Spacesuit Stability

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON — Control moment gyros (CMGs) have stabilized spacecraft, large and small, for decades. Now researchers at MIT and the Draper Laboratory believe the rapidly spinning devices can do the same for astronauts working in weightlessness. The efforts, which are receiving $600,000 in NASA Innovative...

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