24 volunteers will tumble around for an hour like clothes in a washing machine.
For that study, a group of 24 active duty service members will ride the system for one hour, during which time they will be spinning around at accelerations up to three times the force of gravity.
"Shortly after liftoff in the Space Shuttle, I felt like I was on a merry-go-round as my body hunted for what was up, down, left, and right," NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock said in the NASA post.NASA explained that the Kraken system is particularly well suited to its study because it isdifferent types of flight. The space agency wrote that the system can "disorient occupants through sudden shifts in roll, pitch, and yaw, superimposed onto horizontal and vertical lurches.
NASA will specifically aim to determine whether certain head movements could help to alleviate some of the"Anecdotes from astronauts suggest that performing slight head movements helps them recover a sense of balance more quickly," study lead Michael Schubert, a neurophysiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, explained.
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