China’s astronauts are working up a sweat in orbit with a wide range of train machines designed to maintain them match and battle the lack of bone density that comes with dwelling in microgravity.
Video clips of the Tiangong space station‘s Wentian experiment module launched just lately by the China Manned House Company (CMSA) present astronaut Deng Qingming utilizing a personalized space biking machine to train each units of limbs.
Deng and his crewmates on the present Shenzhou 15 mission, commander Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu, are additionally utilizing resistance tools put in within the Mengtian experiment module for exercises that embrace rowing, squatting and pulling, which can assist them strengthen muscle mass and bones within the microgravity atmosphere of space.
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The three-module Tiangong additionally has a treadmill, which has lengthy been one of many main ways for astronauts to train to restrict bone loss and muscle decay whereas in orbit.
The Shenzhou 15 astronauts launched to the Tiangong space station on Nov. 29 final 12 months and plan to spend a total of round 180 days in orbit. Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu final week launched into the mission’s first spacewalk.
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