Weightless Workouts
A new fitness machine on the space station brings astronaut exercise into the 21st century
- By airspacemag.com
- AirSpaceMag.com, December 31, 2008
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The first rudimentary exercise equipment used by U.S. astronauts was a simple bungee cord device, first flown on Gemini IV in 1965. Pulling the rubber cord required 70 pounds of force.
The Apollo astronauts took along the commercially developed Exer-Genie on several missions, but reported mixed success. Mike Collins complained after his Apollo 11 flight, “If you got a good workout on the Exer-genie, it got so hot that you couldn't really touch it.” Pete Conrad was also frustrated by the device. He told NASA debriefers, “I tried after the Apollo 12 flight to learn how to use the Exer-Gym right. And I never did like it.”
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Comments (1)
Wow! NASA has it going on! LOL.
Looking at this I can't help to think
how acceptionally cool if people
that were non-astronauts (you know, land-lovers) could have
access to something like this as
an awesome form of physical therapy for those that are striving
hard to regain their health and strength back; maybe call it an ATB
(AN Air Therapy Box). If something
such as this already out there, I'd
like to know; or if someone is
interested in designing such, I'd be
honored to assist, as much as
possible. Who knows maybe in the
future this could cut down many
excuses for not exercising. How
cool would that be?
Posted by Evone R. on May 5,2013 | 10:20 AM