Artemis 2 exercise device soars in parabolic flight (photos, video)

A person lying down in an airplane with their feet on the plate of a flywheel. their hands float, suggesting they are in microgravity during a parabolic flight.

An exercise device for the moon just had its first taste of microgravity.

A flywheel design destined to fly on the Artemis 2 round-the-moon astronaut mission, no earlier than 2025, flew six parabolic flights in Canada during the week of July 15. Researchers flew in a business jet known as the Falcon 20, taking off from Montreal before doing dives and climbs across the sky.