73rd ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
The 73rd ESA PFC took place from 25 October 2020 to 6 November 2020 and will be conducted on Novespace´s Airbus A310 ZERO-G from Paderborn, Germany. Our research question dealt with typical problem astronauts have, cartilage breakdown in microgravity. We tested a new reporter system and analyszed the first molecular responses of human chondrocytes, the active cells in cartilage, to the hyper- and microgravity environment during a parabolic flight.