TV personality Stephen Colbert used his show The Colbert Report to encourage his viewers to write in votes to name the space station’s treadmill COLBERT, short for Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.
NASA selected United Electronics Industries’ UEIPAC Cube (shown below) for controlling the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) treadmill in the space station’s exercise deck. The treadmill is commonly abbreviated TVIS, for its Treadmill Vibration Isolation Stabilization system, allowing astronauts to run without treadmill vibrations affecting the spacelab’s delicate microgravity science experiments.
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