Enjoying a rare weekend at home in Cologne: no training except, as usual, working out.
Strength and endurance training are daily activities for astronauts onboard the International Space Station. We have very effective equipment onboard that helps us reduce muscle and bone loss associated with long exposure to weightlessness. But that equipment is also quite bulky. Consider that the ISS is a gigantic space vehicle compared to anything we will use in the future for space exploration beyond Low Earth Orbit, so we’ll probably need smaller devices in the future.
Looks like fellow Shenanigan Andreas Mogensen got to assemble and test such a device during his SEATEST mission in the Aquarius underwater habitat. Take a look at his video report!
14/09/2013