The International Space Station Expedition 65 team tape-recorded themselves on a day off after a long week of work having some weightless enjoyable. From Earth orbit, 400 km above our world, the team present the extremely first Space Olympics.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet shared this video on social networks with the caption:
“The first ever Space Olympics! A Saturday afternoon on the International Space Station. Four disciplines. Rules that evolved as we played. Seven athletes. Four nations. Two teams. Crew cohesion and morale boosted like never before. The first Space Olympics saw Team Crew Dragon and Team Soyuz compete in lack-of-floor-routine, no-handball, synchronized space swimming, and weightless sharpshooting.”
Over 200 experiments are prepared throughout Thomas’ time in area, with 40 European ones and 12 brand-new experiments led by the French area firm CNES. Throughout Mission Alpha Thomas is highlighting the parallels in between being an astronaut and a professional athlete: both require to carry out at crucial minutes, and train difficult to be at their finest. Thomas has typically stated that sport taught him the worths of group spirit and appreciating colleagues, and no astronaut is an island – if one occupation is an example of team effort it is being an astronaut. It takes a group to guarantee they are at their finest.
