Space Marathons Are Already Famous As Space Sports
Space marathons are among the competitive space sports whose practitioners include astronauts and cosmonauts during their tours on the International Space Station or during their walks in space or on the moon.
Audio-visual contact with the International Space Station brings Earthlings news of Timothy Nigel Peake, European Space Agency astronaut from Chichester, Sussex, England, completing a space marathon. Major Peake’s successful competition April 24, 2016, in the 42.195-kilometer (26.219-mile), 36th London Marathon counts as the second space-based participation in a world-famous long-distance running event. Sunita Lyn Williams of Euclid, Ohio, deserves honors as the first space-based marathoner during a 1998 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Group-selected membership of Expedition 14.
United States Navy Captain Williams’ pioneer run April 16, 2007, endows the 111th Boston Marathon with the status of first long-distance race with a space-based participant.
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Stephen Hawking commented about hoping to be able to experience gravity-free situations aboard the space station. He did get to experience them by Earth-based simulation.
Dr. Hawking did not get to do any exercising or running even as weightlessness would have made it possible for him to do so in gravity-free environments.
It's a bit unsettling that despite exercises, such as running, American astronauts all have required assists in walking from the returned space capsule.
Additionally, Scott Kelly, who spent almost one year on the International Space Station and 520 days in space, indicated that all that time altered his DNA. Scientists know the latter for a fact because Scott's DNA has been compared to his twin brother's and found changed.
It intrigues me now about how much if any calories are burned and whether running is what spacelings need. Down on Earth, it's actually easier on the body to walk than to run, particularly with the scary problems that can develop with one's knees.
A gravity-free gym sounds like a great invention for us all down here if it really works!
I guess, it must be thrilling to run in space free of gravity. How many calories are burn and whether they are really fitness exercises good for humans venturing space is a question only NASA can answer. If it is really good for fitness, we can have such spaces in gym on earth too.
Tolovaj, Thank you for stopping by and valuing what I've shared about space marathons.
Me too, I agree with the mindset that one has to have to run in a confined, almost gravity-free space. I'd rather run in actual marathons, which I've done, than work out the equivalent on a treadmill, which I've done but not 26 miles in just one session. Although come to think of it, I've run the equivalent of a marathon on an indoor track, which I didn't mind because of the floor-to-ceiling window views outside.
This is very fascinating. It's hard to imagine how you can run a marathon in a closed space, with almost no gravity, alone, ... I guess it takes completely different approach in runner's mind. Thanks for interesting article!
sandyspider, It's impressive how astronauts and cosmonauts do what they need to do -- they have quite a busy daily schedule -- and still take time to do something truly remarkable, like running marathons with Earthlings!
This would be fun and different to do.