Walking is the main physical phenomenon among beings with legs. Be it 'n' number of legs a being has, it finds out a way, creates a...
Walking is the main physical phenomenon among beings with legs. Be it 'n' number of legs a being has, it finds out a way, creates a pattern to coordinate all of them to facilitate locomotion. Humans have two legs, their main means of locomotion. What if, humans forget to walk? Or lose the coordination of limbs? In many cases where this can happen, Astronaut Drew Feustel who has spent about 200 days in space, found it hard to walk on Earth.
197 days in space, to be precise is the number of days Drew spent in space. It is the place where there is no solid movement but to take assistance and float from place to place. A prolonged stay as such resulted in his inability to lose the stature of standing erect and walking.
In a video released by NASA, Drew is seen struggling to walk. He had returned to Earth and was undergoing routine checkups. It is then when the experts around him who were examining him found out that, he is unable to walk in a straight path with his eyes closed.
https://twitter.com/Astro_Feustel/status/1075889929119547393
Drew himself posted the video on his twitter as his status and captioned it welcoming the SoyuzMS09 Crew back to Earth. The video was taken on October 15th 2018, right after few hours of landing on Earth. The weightlessness space offers us, results in no stress to the body for movement and motion.
The adaptability of the body to its environment is seen here, which seems to be a common phenomenon and the reason for evolution. Finding it difficult to walk heel to toe on Earth, this was Drew's Ninth Spacewalk. Drew Feustal was the Commander of Expedition 56 and in a coincidence, he happens to be 56 years old.
https://twitter.com/ISS_Research/status/1058372911080235008
To not lose a complete limb assisted motion, and to maintain muscle mass of the body in Space, Astronauts are made to Exercise for two hours every day. On their return, they are made to undergo a series of tests and checkups. These test's results determine the Astronaut's bodily adaptive changes to the new environment.
The feedback of various expeditions and reports is used to further prepare the space agencies to correct, improve and do things in a much better way. Long missions to other planets seem more dangerous after the effects of walking in space turn out to be abnormal.
197 days in space, to be precise is the number of days Drew spent in space. It is the place where there is no solid movement but to take assistance and float from place to place. A prolonged stay as such resulted in his inability to lose the stature of standing erect and walking.
In a video released by NASA, Drew is seen struggling to walk. He had returned to Earth and was undergoing routine checkups. It is then when the experts around him who were examining him found out that, he is unable to walk in a straight path with his eyes closed.
https://twitter.com/Astro_Feustel/status/1075889929119547393
Drew himself posted the video on his twitter as his status and captioned it welcoming the SoyuzMS09 Crew back to Earth. The video was taken on October 15th 2018, right after few hours of landing on Earth. The weightlessness space offers us, results in no stress to the body for movement and motion.
The adaptability of the body to its environment is seen here, which seems to be a common phenomenon and the reason for evolution. Finding it difficult to walk heel to toe on Earth, this was Drew's Ninth Spacewalk. Drew Feustal was the Commander of Expedition 56 and in a coincidence, he happens to be 56 years old.
https://twitter.com/ISS_Research/status/1058372911080235008
To not lose a complete limb assisted motion, and to maintain muscle mass of the body in Space, Astronauts are made to Exercise for two hours every day. On their return, they are made to undergo a series of tests and checkups. These test's results determine the Astronaut's bodily adaptive changes to the new environment.
The feedback of various expeditions and reports is used to further prepare the space agencies to correct, improve and do things in a much better way. Long missions to other planets seem more dangerous after the effects of walking in space turn out to be abnormal.
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