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The challenge for Williams required her to alter her sleep schedule a bit from the normal pattern of Russian time they keep in the ISS. Regular exercise is important to astronauts on the space station as weightlessness has a decremental effect on bone density and muscle mass. Suni Williams ran the marathon in space while her sister and fellow astronaut Karen Nyberg were getting soggy in the rain on the marathon course here in Massachusetts. more ›