The following astronauts to journey across the moon appear a lot match to make the journey.
The 4 astronauts who will fly on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission lately handed the “Bobby and Pete Problem,” performing 50 pull-ups and 100 pushups in lower than 10 minutes.
The quartet — NASA’s Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian House Company — chronicled their achievement in a 50-second video, which NASA posted on X on Aug. 29.
The Bobby and Pete Problem takes its title from Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who popularized the viral health take a look at in an Aug. 18 video.
Towards the top of that video, Kennedy passes the problem alongside to Appearing NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, who’s additionally the Secretary of Transportation, in addition to a former champion lumberjack and actuality TV star. And it was Duffy who acquired the Artemis 2 astronauts concerned.
“Secretary Duffy, your Artemis 2 crew accepts the problem,” Wiseman says firstly of the Aug. 29 X video, together with his three crewmates becoming a member of on the ultimate three phrases. (Wiseman is the Artemis 2 commander, Glover is the pilot, and Koch and Hansen are mission specialists.)
We then see clips of the 4 astronauts doing pushups and pull-ups, powering by the problem sweaty and out of breath, however in the end triumphant. They usually finish by paying the ache ahead.
“We would like Zena [Cardman], Mike [Fincke] and Jonny Kim on the Worldwide House Station to compete and crush our instances,” Wiseman says within the video, referring to the three NASA astronauts presently dwelling on the ISS. (We do not know what these instances are; the video would not give that data.)
As its title makes clear, Artemis 2 would be the second mission in NASA’s Artemis program of moon exploration. Artemis 1 launched in November 2022, efficiently sending an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and again to Earth.
The roughly 10-day Artemis 2 is anticipated to launch between February and April of 2026, sending Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen on a slingshot journey across the moon. They will not land on Earth’s nearest neighbor, however Artemis 3, focused for 2027, will achieve this, if all goes to plan.
Health is an enormous a part of the coaching routine for all astronauts, whether or not they’re sure for Earth orbit, the moon or past. And the work continues off planet as properly; astronauts dwelling on the ISS train laborious every single day to stave off the bone loss and muscle losing that lengthy stays in microgravity induce.
