Shane Kimbrough trains for his expedition,
an international mission, at
Johnson Space Center, in Houston, US.
Life in space — where your bodily fl uids go haywire, your bones become brittle and your
muscles weaken at an astonishing rate — is pretty grim for us earthlings. That’s why, as NASA
sets its eyes on taking that next giant leap into the future — deep space — it’s getting behind
astronauts with a diff erent kind of right stuff : crazy hardcore fi tness regimens.
By Ron Berler
Photographs by Dan Winters
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