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Thomas Pesquet Alpha mission training:
Alpha training: weightless weight training machine ARED
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- Title Thomas Pesquet Alpha mission training - Alpha training: weightless weight training machine ARED
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In preparation for his second mission to the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is training to be ready for launch. His second six-month mission is called Alpha and will see Thomas launch as part Crew-2 on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Megan Behnken and Shane Kimbrough and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
Here Thomas is training to use the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) to keep fit while he is in space. ARED is similar to a multifunctional weightlifting machine on Earth but, of course, weights are not much use in weightlessness. Instead, pneumatic resistance achieves the same result: exercising the muscles.
Astronauts need to spend up to two hours each day working out to counteract the loss of bone and muscle fibre that comes from living in space.
More on ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his Alpha mission at www.esa.int/MissionAlpha