{"id":233513,"date":"2015-09-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"5ea9e30508a9d65b5e298658f45606af"},"modified":"2015-09-09T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:00:00","slug":"unpacking-mares-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233513","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking MARES in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/unpacking_mares_in_space\/15595327-1-eng-GB\/Unpacking_MARES_in_space_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis timelapse shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working with NASA astronaut Terry Virts during the Futura mission to unpack, setup and then store the MARES muscle-measurement machine in Europe\u2019s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station over two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or MARES for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station that monitors astronauts\u2019 muscles as they work out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMuscle strength decreases during spaceflight and researchers need to know why this happens in order to prepare for long-duration missions and safe space tourism. MARES is an exercise bench that offers detailed information about how muscles behave during spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew in 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Samantha via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\/\" >&nbsp;http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/unpacking_mares_in_space\/15595327-1-eng-GB\/Unpacking_MARES_in_space_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis timelapse shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working with NASA astronaut Terry Virts during the Futura mission to unpack, setup and then store the MARES muscle-measurement machine in Europe\u2019s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station over two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or MARES for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station that monitors astronauts\u2019 muscles as they work out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMuscle strength decreases during spaceflight and researchers need to know why this happens in order to prepare for long-duration missions and safe space tourism. MARES is an exercise bench that offers detailed information about how muscles behave during spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew in 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Samantha via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}