Dinner time for the Expedition 63 crew

The Expedition 63 crew gathers for dinner on the International Space Station.

Astronauts lose up to 1% of their bone mass each month they stay in space. Studying what happens during long stays on the Space Station offers a good insight into this form of accelerated osteoporosis, and how to stop it on Earth patients too.

Roscosmos’ Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, on the left of this image, took part in the second session of EDOS-2 and Immuno-2 experiments as test subjects.