The facility also had a movable enclosure that could be positioned at radii of 6, 12, 18, or 21 meters.
Subjects reported an easier ability to start and stop walking as well as an increased overall body control when walking in the direction of spin, even at artificial gravity levels as low as 0.1 G.
When at a radius of 12 meters and a rotation of 4 revolutions per minute, subjects experienced 0.2 G. At this gravity level, subjects reported that walking in either direction was comfortable. At a radius of 21 meters and a spin of 5 revolutions per minute, delivering 0.6 G, subjects described walking as feeling very “Earth-like” with respect to balance and work. Subjects also reported that the most comfortable condition was the 18-meter position while rotating at 4 revolutions per minute for
