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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NASA
The space shuttle mid-deck, far more cramped than the International Space Station or even Skylab, still had room for stowable exercise equipment, like this rowing machine used by Rich Clifford during his STS-59 mission in 1994. Shuttle crews found other, more creative ways to exercise, according to Clifford. In a 2000 interview he recalled, "We took a large rubber band—called a Dyna-Band—that we used for exercise and stretched it across the airlock hatch on the mid-deck. Then we’d shoot ourselves down the tunnel. One of the crew members would shoot you down, and we had a competition to see who could do it without touching the tunnel walls. Nobody ever made 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