宇航员在太空玩“马拉松”

宇航员苏尼特·威廉姆斯于周一展开了波士顿马拉松，她在太空中利用跑步机完成了210英里。威廉姆斯于美国东部时间上午10点在一台编号为14000号的跑步机上准时开始比赛，当时她已经是以每小时1．75万英里的速度在太空运行。跑步机的两侧各有一台笔记本电脑，这样她就可以在看到从波士顿比赛现场传来的信息反馈的同时跟随国际空间站飞行的路径。在比赛刚开始的26．2英里，穿着波士顿红袜的威廉姆斯步伐非常轻快。为了避免飘出去．她被固定在了跑步机上。

Astronaut Runs ＂Marathon＂in Space

Astronaut Sunita Williams started her version of the Boston Marathon on Monday, running on a treadmill 210 miles above Earth.Already travelling at 17,500 mph,Williams started the race on time at 10 a.m. EDT with race No. 14,000 taped to the front of the treadmill.Two laptop computers were on either side of the treadmill so she could watch a live feed of the race from Boston and keep track of where the international space station was flying. Restrained to the treadmill in a harness so she wouldn＇t float away and wearing Boston Red Sox socks, Williams ran at a brisk pace at the start of the 26.2- mile race. Williams＇ sister, Dina Pandya, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg were running in the race on the ground.