NASA encourages kids to Train Like an Astronaut

(NASA/Johnson Space Center) Getting kids interested in health and fitness is never easy, but tell them they are going to "train like an astronaut" and they suddenly can't wait to know more. As a response to the childhood obesity epidemic, NASA introduced Mission X: Train like an Astronaut in 2011. Since then it has morphed into a global collaboration of fitness challenges that has tens of thousands of young people testing their own agility, taking their own pulse, and learning how to get and sta...