Every Day, We Get A Little Bit

Researchers Can Measure What Kind Of Angles Your Legs Take Up During The Day When They're Just Trailing Around Behind You In Weightless Conditions, And What Kind Of Impacts You Feel During Your Exercise. They're Going To Compare That With What We Do On The Ground.

Small Samples In The Centrifuge Will Spin At Varying Rates To Create Synthetic Gravity, Like The Gravity Of Mars Or The Gravity Of The Moon, And Measure How The Specimens Respond Within The Centrifuge.

I Think It's Going To Be A Very Important, Unique Data Set In Terms Of Measuring The Behavior Of Your Lower Body In Space And Trying To Figure Out What We Can Do To Preserve Bone And Muscle Density.

We're Going To Be Focusing Our Science On Things That Will Take Us Farther And Longer Into Space. For Many Of Those Experiments, The Crew Members Are Human Guinea Pigs, Which Is Fine; That's Part Of My Job. I Don't Mind Being A Human Guinea Pig.

A Civilization That Only Looks Inward Will Stagnate. We Have To Keep Looking Outward; We Have To Keep Finding New Avenues For Human Endeavor And Human Expression.