Howdy Ags,

I'm reaching out on behalf of my Biomedical Engineering Capstone team at Texas A&M. We're competing in a NASA-run competition focused on designing and building exercise equipment for space missions (we're going up against t.u., if that helps motivate you).

Because of our limited funding, we're looking for used or even broken workout equipment that anyone might be willing to donate. We're especially interested in things like:

• Vertical climbers

• Treadmills

• Stair steppers

• Ellipticals

If you're in the area, we're happy to handle pickup and transport ourselves.

Additionally, if anyone here has experience in exercise-device engineering (or knows someone who does), we'd be incredibly grateful for any advice or insight you can offer as we develop our design.

Thanks (and Gig' em) in advance!

Gavin Moore '26

Gavin9805 said:

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Howdy Ags,

I'm reaching out on behalf of my Biomedical Engineering Capstone team at Texas A&M. We're competing in a NASA-run competition focused on designing and building exercise equipment for space missions (we're going up against t.u., if that helps motivate you).

Because of our limited funding, we're looking for used or even broken workout equipment that anyone might be willing to donate. We're especially interested in things like:

• Vertical climbers

• Treadmills

• Stair steppers

• Ellipticals

If you're in the area, we're happy to handle pickup and transport ourselves.

Additionally, if anyone here has experience in exercise-device engineering (or knows someone who does), we'd be incredibly grateful for any advice or insight you can offer as we develop our design.

Thanks (and Gig' em) in advance!

Gavin Moore '26

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Interesting. My question is that none of those really would do much to help maintain or grow muscle in an astronaut's upper body. So, is there evidence that shows doing cardio focused type of training in low gravity environments actually helps maintain muscle overall? Obviously, your legs are working so maybe there, but what about the upper body? Plus, how does that work in low gravity. We need the gravity to push against to grow. Serious questions as I nerd out on this stuff...

Also, what about the idea of applying myostatin inhibitors to astronauts? I have been assuming that the testing on myostatin inhibitors was partially to help astronauts keep, if not even grow muscle in low gravity while on missions. If they work as I have heard, an astronaut wouldn't even need to really train to grow, even in space.