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    Area of Science:

    • Space exploration
    • Environmental control systems
    • Human physiology

    Background:

    • Aerobic exercise is essential for maintaining astronaut health during long-duration space missions.
    • Moisture control is a critical challenge for environmental control systems in spacecraft due to crew sweat.
    • Both continuous and interval exercise are known to improve aerobic capacity.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare metabolic water production between continuous and interval aerobic exercise protocols.
    • To assess the impact of different exercise intensities and durations on sweat and respiratory responses.
    • To inform the selection of exercise countermeasures for deep space exploration.

    Main Methods:

    • Evaluated sweat and respiratory responses during continuous (30-min steady state) and interval (4x4-min, 8x30-s) exercise protocols.
    • Measured responses on separate days for each exercise condition.
    • Analyzed the correlation between exercise workload, energy expenditure, and metabolic water loss.

    Main Results:

    • Interval exercise protocols (4-min and 30-s) yielded 16% and 66% less metabolic water loss, respectively, compared to continuous exercise.
    • Metabolic water loss was strongly correlated with work performed (R² = 0.81) and energy expenditure (R² = 0.83).

    Conclusions:

    • Interval exercise presents a viable alternative to continuous exercise for reducing metabolic water production in spacecraft.
    • Exercise protocol selection can mitigate environmental control challenges related to humidity.
    • Findings support optimizing astronaut exercise for deep space missions.