Now the astronauts will begin the work of continuing to assemble the station
Update 02:10: The hatches between the space station and the space shuttle Discovery were opened and members of the station crew - Commander Michael Pinkie, and flight engineers Sandra Magnus and Yuri Lonchakov greeted the following: Shuttle Commander Lee Archambault, his deputy and pilot Tony Antonelli, and other crew members J. and Zef Aqaba, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold, John Phillips and Koichi Wakta.
Update: 00:00: Less than an hour ago, at 17:20 EST, 23:20 Israel time, the shuttle Discovery docked at the rendezvous adapter in the front part of the Harmonic Component on the space station. The connection occurred when the two spacecraft hovered over Lake Wells in Western Australia.
Before the rendezvous, the shuttle made rotations around an axis so that the astronauts on the space station could take pictures of it from all sides in order to detect any damage during the launch, another step that was started after the Columbia disaster in 2003.
Over the next eight days, the combined crews of the space station and Discovery will install the S6 component - the last component of the station's orbit, complete three spacewalks and transfer hundreds of items between the two spacecraft.
The gates between Discovery and the station should open at around 01:00 and the traditional welcome ceremony will take place about half an hour later. At this ceremony, Japanese Space Agency astronaut Koichi Wataka will become the 18th crew member of the space station and Sandra Magnus will replace him on the Discovery crew. Magnus stayed at the station as a crew member for 121 days.
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On second thought, I would improve the device because the shoulders are not built to withstand the pressure that the legs are under. Therefore I would use one set of rubber bands between the feet and the waist and another between the waist and the shoulders. This also does not allow an exact simulation, but it can certainly help.
They have all kinds of exercises to maintain fitness and bone strength.
Basically - almost anything helps.
Personally, I would install rubber bands that are connected on one side to the feet and on the other side to the shoulders and tell them to go with it permanently.
Michael:
They have a kind of bicycle sharpener so that they can maintain strength.
(It seems to me)
Birch:
They don't stand. They are in constant free fall - just like the space station (inventions in some orbit that do not require the investment of energy to maintain it is actually constant free fall) and therefore they float inside it.
One of the side effects of this fact is that their bones lose calcium and become weak.
The International Space Station circled in low orbit (LEO) around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 400 km. The station completes one revolution around the Earth every 92 minutes at an average speed of 27,744 km/h. The orbit of the station is tilted at an angle of 52 degrees relative to the equator. The station includes eight large cylindrical sections called components. Each such component is launched from Earth separately, and connected to a station in space. Upon completion of the station, eight arrays of solar collectors will provide electrical energy with a power of over 100 kilowatts to the station. The station units are assembled on a 109 meter long metal skeleton
Courtesy of Wikipedia
Say, the people who live in the space station look like they are standing (with the help of gravity), they are not standing right?
I heard that each person staying on the space station costs the United States hundreds of millions of dollars or billions, I don't remember, so how do people stay there for so many days?
Maybe I got confused with people staying on the moon?
Where is the space station anyway? What is floating above Wells Lake, aren't they outside the atmosphere? far outside?