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Today they are to be feeling pretty proud of themselves as this has been a nearly flawless performance. looking above us, we are 250 miles up. the astronauts have completed the primary tasks and are now doing a little get ahead work and tidying up. soon they will make their way back into the airlock. the american astronauts climbed out of the hatch for just about 8:00 a.m. eastern time this morning after setting up the workstation they went into very important upgrading action. todays microgravi...

Tourists for four minutes of weightlessness, he says hes trying to inspire us. >> with altitude, youre trying to change attitudes. >> they view the earth very differently having been to space and they come back determined to protect this beautiful planet we live on. >> reporter: he says he wants to be one of the first to go to space. hes aiming for this summer, the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and his birthday. david? >> stay tuned. thank you. there is news tonight about the flu season...

The idea is this is a nine hundred cubic metre labyrinth with everything arranged in a manner as precise as it is complex. its a high to collaborate tree where microgravity turns every notion of up and down on its head. newcomers have to quickly learn how to find their way around. although you know when you suddenly start floating around in weightlessness you can feel your own disorientation or your organs of balance are out of kilter everything is distorted. your stomach feels full because ever...

If anything beyond that is reversible with. me i played. during the six months of the i assess the crew was confronted with another central problem of long term flights a psychological one. like this former cosmonauts canady padalka think even in spaceflight circles but delta is considered an extraterrestrial hes a legend who has lived in space longer than anyone else so far. on five space missions he managed a total of eight hundred and seventy nine days of weightlessness thats two and a half y...

This is a nine hundred cubic metre labyrinth with everything arranged in a manner as precise as it is complex. its a high to calabar a tree where microgravity turns every notion of them up and down on its head. newcomers have to quickly learn how to find their way around. when you suddenly start floating around in weightlessness you can feel your own disorientation or your organs of balance are out of kilter everything is distorted . your stomach feels full because everything in it is clouding. ...

If anything beyond that is reversible or it could be me. during the six months on the i assess the crew was confronted with another central problem of long term flights a psychological one. lets us form a cosmonaut canady padalka thing even in spaceflight circles but deltas considered an extraterrestrial hes a legend who has lived in space longer than anyone else so far. on the five space missions he managed a total of eight hundred and seventy nine days of weightlessness thats two and a half ye...

Physical exercise is an important part of the astronauts daily routine in the i assess every teen activity as essential as sleeping or eating. in space you just float around there are many muscles that you dont use at all we have to exercise for two and a half hours a day to counteract bone and muscle loss so that theres trail. goodness exercises also help the astronauts relax they prefer to use the average strength training device specially designed for muscle training in weightlessness which h...

European space agency and a former astronaut himself and hes joining us from training and education center sir its a privilege to have you here with us on the show talk to us i mean youve been through this yourself how does it feel to return after such a trip. you know the feeling being in space having this beautiful perspective which alex was just talking about having the perception of weightlessness is always something absolutely remarkable but i can tell you after half a year youre also looki...

And blue, theyll touch space and come back down. the actual time in space will be measured in a few minutes. theyll get to feel the weightlessness, view of the earth, the horizon and come back down. it will be in a 30-minute or so range, maybe a little bit less. theyll be paying a fair amount of money to go, still out of reach for most ordinary people, someone in the $100,000 per ticket. its coming down. about 25 times more energy needed. theyre doing a first step and thats important. >> some pe...

Regular people of into space. >> when branson says space, he is talking about suborbital space flight, which means his passengers will only get to experience about 5 minutes of weightlessness. that is very different from actually sending astronauts into true orbit, which is what other commercial space ventures like spacex and boeing are trying to do. at their first unmanned test flight set for this january and march, and then, if all goes according to plan, they will put people on top of those r...