Saturday, May 23, 2015

Are You as Isolated as an Astronaut? Exercise Can Help

If exercise can help astronauts and Antarctic winter crews, it can probably help you, too.

Although space flight is often perceived as exciting and glamorous, long space missions are actually isolating and dull. Astronauts are confined in close quarters with the same few people for months or even years at a time. Contact with earthbound family and friends is limited or non-existent, as is access to sunlight, fresh food, and many other pleasurable aspects of “normal” life.

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