The International Space Station’s astronaut shows how to operate a treadmill from 250 miles above the Earth in new footage.
Matthias Maurer, a German astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), can be seen fixed to a harness and bungie to simulate the experience of jogging on Earth.
T2, the treadmill, is attached to Node 3 also called Tranquility. This module is part of the ISS.
To stay healthy and fit, astronauts who live and work on the ISS spend around 2 hours a days, 6 days a weeks.

Matthias Maurer (German astronaut for the European Space Agency) can be seen attached to a harness with a bungie during his daily work out.
This prevents muscle and bone damage caused by microgravity. It can also lead to longer-term health problems for spacefarers who return to Earth.
In space, the effects of a lack of gravity on the human body is a big obstacle facing future space exploration missions, including planned manned missions to Mars in the 2030s, which could take up three years of an astronaut’s life.
The clip shows Maurer floating about before grabbing a handrail and stabilizing himself to get into the right orientation.
It then begins the bizarre sequence where he “runs on a wall”.
ESA adds that the clip “is just a snapshot” of Matthias’s space-based exercise. A typical T2 session lasts between 30 and 40 minutes.
On November 11, NASA launched Crew 3, the third fully-fledged ‘operational’ crew NASA and SpaceX have flown to the ISS.
The crew – made up of Maurer along with NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron – successfully reached the ISS about a day after the launch.
Following their six month-long stay aboard the space station for six months, Maurer and other inhabitants of Earth will make their return to Earth this April.
Maurer, while in orbit will be supporting over 35 European and more international researches.

For astronauts in orbit, they exercise approximately 2 hours per day and 6 days a semaine on the ISS.

From left to right: Matthias Maurer from Germany’s European Space Agency and NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Baron and Tom Marshburn at Cape Canaveral’s Kennedy Space Center.
Matthias had received a shipment from SpaceX Dragon just before Christmas and was now sorting synthetic muscles cells to incubate.
Some of the cells in these tissues are electrically stimulated, triggering weightlessness and contractions. Others are subject to artificial gravity by centrifugation.
ESA states that the results of these experiments will improve our understanding in areas such as human health and materials science. This is beneficial to life on Earth, as well future space exploration.
Crew 3 is the fourth spacecraft that NASA sent to orbit with SpaceX’s SpaceX vehicles in the last 17 months. It was a continuation of a public/private partnership SpaceX formed with Elon Musk in 2002.

Pictured: The ISS, which floats at a low Earth orbit and reaches an altitude 254 miles (pictured). The ISS flies at 5 miles per second around the globe every 90 minutes.

NASA officials plan to place humans on Mars by the 2030s, or as soon as 2035.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, seen as it prepares to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Four astronauts are onboard.
They collaborated to usher in an era of NASA that saw the first American astronauts launch from US soil last year in nine years since NASA stopped flying spacecrafts.
SpaceX will launch in May 2020 Successfully transported NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on a 19-hour journey to the ISS – marking the first crewed test flight of the firm’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
This was also the first US-based crewed rocket to orbit since NASA’s end a decade ago.
Crew 4 – the fourth crewed operational NASA flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft – is set to launch on April 15, 2022.
It will carry a four-person crew to the ISS – NASA astronauts Robert Hines, Kjell N. Lindgren and Jessica Watkins, as well as Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.