Spaceout

Find a way to adapt common gym tools for a reduced gravity environment and design a workout routine that can minimize bone and muscular loss while being fun and easy to use during a long term mission. In doing so consider constraints regarding weight (equipment should weigh less than 500kg) and dimensions. Consider incorporating virtual reality to simulate a jog through an astronaut’s favorite Earth destinations or incorporate gaming to motivate users.

Astronauts must workout regularly once in outerspace. The machines they use so far take up too muh space in the nodes and take loads of time to be assembled. Therefore, we thought about improving the elliptical in a way that would be suitable in space.Pedals will be replaced with shoes sat on metal plates,The plates will have metal rods attached on both end,The rods will be attached to the wheels. When the rods move the wheels rotate, allowing the astronaut to move,For stabilization, a waist belt is worn, and is attached to the machine and Mileage and time recorder will be installed to the machine.

We based our project on already existing machines astronauts use in the ISS and on the simple elliptical that people use here on earth.