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 bicycle ergometer on the International Space Station is an improvement on the device used by shuttle astronauts. This model includes a vibration isolation system designed to reduce disturbances to sensitive experiments. Here Michael Lopez-Alegria works up a sweat in the station's Destiny science laboratory during his Expedition 14 mission in 2006.

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