FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The astronauts on the Artemis Two mission around the moon are scheduled to start their in-space exercise regimen.<\/p>\n
NASA says each astronaut will work out for 30 minutes a day while they’re up in space. The space agency says spaceflight can weaken muscles and decrease bone density without Earth’s gravity.<\/p>\n
As the Artemis crew travels around the moon, they’ll use a small machine called a flywheel to work out while inside Orion.<\/p>\n
FGCU exercise scientist Dr. Patricia Sawyer-Simmons says the machine works a lot like equipment you’d see in a gym here on Earth\u2014similar to a rowing or cable machine.<\/p>\n
“So, I mean, really, it’s a lot like an exercise band, except for it’s on a flywheel, so it’ll pull out with resistance and then roll back up,” Sawyer-Simmons said. “But it’s a lot like an exercise band that they might necessarily be able to use for squats, or with right tension, lower dead lifts.”<\/p>\n
Exercise helps the crew to stay sharp physically and mentally during the mission. Sawyer-Simmons says the astronauts are performing at an elite level while conducting science in space.<\/p>\n
“They’re elite performers, right? They have to be able to physically, mentally do their tasks, and we know that exercise supports mental function and physical function,” Sawyer-Simmons said. “So it would make sense that while they’re up there, they want to do the same thing.”<\/p>\n
NASA says these daily workouts will continue throughout the rest of the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The astronauts on the Artemis Two mission around the moon are scheduled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,478,115,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-216423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-national","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}