Stephanie Wilson <\/p>\n
She is in Dunedin for the New Zealand International Science Festival and shared her journey with an audience of about 500 in a sold-out event at St David St lecture theatre. <\/p>\n
They learned about astronaut training at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, including the \"vomit comet\" which had a tendency to make people sick on its flight path set to create 20-second bursts of microgravity. <\/p>\n
Ms Wilson also shared a video of a mission to the International Space Station in April 2010. <\/p>\n
Along with footage of take-off and docking, the audience saw how astronauts moved around, both inside and outside the station and shuttle, transferring equipment. <\/p>\n
\"We use our hands to get around, rather than our feet,\" she said. <\/p>\n
An exercise session, complete with aerobics and resistance training; an evening meal in which an M&M was put into a floating sphere of water; measuring of astronauts, because spines expand with no gravity; and shots of astronauts tucking up into their sleeping bags at night were also included. <\/p>\n
Ms Wilson enjoyed sharing images of lightning storms and the Southern lights and described the space station, an \"orbiting laboratory\", as \"just a phenomenon\". <\/p>\n
She will speak again at TedxDunedin's function at The Apartment tonight. The science festival ends on Sunday. <\/p>\n
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