Despite the astronauts that is in space is complex. People who travel to International Space Station of the POT (ISS), are subjected to microgravity, and inside the spacecraft there is no room that reverses this situation.
How do they do it then? It is necessary to always monitor the weight of the astronauts. First of all, to preserve the health of scientists traveling to space. And secondly, to observe, note and analyze the effects of extraterrestrial environments on humans.
That is why scientists have managed to create a fairly novel method with which they can record the weight of astronauts while they are inside the International Space Station.
A video published by the people of Astrorural shows cosmonaut Oleg Artemiev using the device to weigh astronauts inside the ISS. The device as such is capable of measuring weight through mass.
The machine has the ability to measure “the number of oscillations that each human produces uniquely, and also their period. In this way, and using a known elasticity constant of the spring inside, the mass of the individual can be determined,” explains Astrorural.
“Maintaining weight control is especially important in space, since the lack of gravity together with the free movement of fluids within the body, promotes the loss of muscle mass, which can be fatal once back on Earth. “, they detailed.
The International Space Station has had a busy few months at the beginning of 2024. Astronauts and cosmonauts have gone and others have returned, to keep active research and exploration of the cosmos from Earth's orbit.
This type of experiments on the weight of people who travel to space is one of the advances that add up to carrying out manned trips to the Moon and, possibly, to Mars.