When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

HAMPTON, Va. — Brandon Hogan smiled broadly on Thursday as he sat in a chair at NASA's Langley Research Center that spun around and around, intentionally making himself dizzy. But the high school ...

Vivekanand Vimal receives funding from NASA’s Human Research Program under grant 80NSSC22K0758 When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they ...