Muscles and Space
Dec 19, 2015
• Two functions of your skeleton are to: (1) provide shape and support for your body(2) enable you to move.
• Because your muscles are trained to work in the presence of gravity, without exercise or gravity muscles shrink.
• Space programs have developed special equipment for astronauts to exercise in space to prevent muscle atrophy.
• Dr. James Hicks is a UCI professor who helped develop some of the exercise equipment used by astronauts.
• Because of his knowledge of gravitational physiology, Dr. Hicks was asked to educate the crew of Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E about the long-term effects of space flight on human physiology.