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Al Mansoori and his backup Sultan Al Neyadi spent over an year undergoing brutal exercises at The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Moscow, including experiencing simulations of zero-gravity and high levels of gravitational force.
The first machine involves a treadmill that is used on the ISS. Al Mansoori trained on the same machine that is also available at GCTC. The treadmill pulls on a human's body weight to create a simulation of how exercising in space would be.1:35pm
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The doctors measure how human's organs will react to blood rushing to the brain, as well as how their bodies will adapt to landing back.
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The exercise aims to familiarise astronauts with space-motion sickness and help their bodies adapt to the feeling of weightlessness. (KT video: Sarwat Nasir)
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