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The main purpose of this study was to better understand the molecular mechanisms that occur in the human body as a result of a suborbital spaceflight through metabolomic analysis of biological samples collected from TUA’s astronaut and data received from the blood plasma transcriptome.

Part of BEACON-R saw Tuva wear NINscan during the Galactic 07 mission. This was the first spaceflight for NINscan: A custom developed brain and physiological monitoring system originally developed for NASA and used in extreme environments, including parabolic flight.

When spacecraft are accelerating in space, such as during a pointing maneuver, reorientation burns for docking, or to transfer to a new trajectory, it sets the liquid in propellant tanks in motion. After the thruster firing ends, the liquid motion slows down in the zero-gravity environment. This experiment studied the rate of damping of liquid motion after a rotational maneuver.

This experiment serves as a stepping stone to support astronauts with insulin-dependent diabetes and demonstrates a capability necessary for maintenance therapy and hyperglycemic states in insulin dependent people with diabetes.