The gym made for SPACE: Human centrifuge could prevent bone and muscle decay ..
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-07-11

The gym made for SPACE: Human centrifuge could prevent bone and muscle decay in Mars-bound astronauts
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Researchers have developed a machine to simulate the effects of Earth’s gravity in space to alleviate the problems of space travel.

Astronauts who spend a long time in the micro-gravity environment of space can experience muscle deteoriation, bone loss and other harmful effects on their body.

But using a special type of centrifuge, researchers say these problems could be minimised - ensuring astronauts on a future mission to Mars, for example, arrive fit and healthy.

The technology was developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

It works around the concept of a centrifuge - a spinning contraption that exerts a force on a human occupant through its rotation.

Rotating at a specific speed will ‘push’ the astronaut back, in effect mimicking the force they would feel from Earth’s gravity.