Six months in space leads to a decade’s worth of long-term bone loss
More weight-bearing exercises in space could help counter changes seen in astronauts’ shinbones
![Astronaut Chris Cassidy lifts weights on the International Space Station.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/062922_lk_space-boneloss_feat_rev.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Weight lifting exercises for leg strength (like the deadlift NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is doing here) help alleviate bone loss due to a microgravity environment.
NASA