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Astronaut to Run the Boston Marathon From Space

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the space-racing dept.

BostonBehindTheScenes writes "American astronaut Sunita Williams will run 26.2 miles on a treadmill on Patriot's Day (April 16th for those of you outside of Massachusetts) while runners on the ground will compete in the 111th Boston Marathon, according to this New Scientist article. And yes, she is an actual registered participant who qualified by finishing among the top 100 women in the Houston Marathon in 2006. NASA's press release touts this as yet another space first."

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  1. Re:Pork. by arivanov · · Score: 1, Troll

    And when exactly did the US taxpayers pay for the environmental control module and its shipment to orbit?

    Hint - it is one of the non-US components.

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  2. Re:Is this really fair? by pairo · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wrong. http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/downloads/use rguides/physenv.pdf
    For the difference between the two (zero gravity and free fall): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness#Zero_g ravity

  3. Re:Treadmill vs road by RationalRoot · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've never made the marathon, but I've done 18+ mile runs. (Knee went pop) Her claim to have run a marathon holds about this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight, primarily cause she's effectively got this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight. And no hills, no wind, no blazing sun, no patchs of ice on the road to contend with. As if being an AssThrowNot she doesn't have enough to brag about.

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