The toilets on the ISS are so different from yours, astronauts actually need some supplemental potty training to figure them out. And they're astronauts. Without getting into the nitty-gritty, let’s just say that relieving oneself in space these days is a lot better than it used to be. ...
NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC) In addition to using the bathroom regularly, astronauts need to do all of the same things they do on Earth, including eating and sleeping. Of course in space, the lack of gravity makes everyday activities not so ordinary. With no refrigerator on-...
NASA has partnered with the crowdsourcing platform HeroX in its search for the next lunar toilet. Do your, uh, duty and design the next toilet that astronauts will use on the moon. The prize for designing the perfect space crapper? $20,000.In...
Dr. Tanya Harrison, a planetary scientist, told Lifehacker that on the Space Station, astronauts exist in “microgravity.” They are still close enough to Earth to have a little gravity, but they’re essentially always in a state of “falling.” (Interestingly, she said, though their urine...
“Self-care is actually an everyday subject for astronauts and for the team that sends people to space, in that the mission is so compelling and important and it’s easy to sort of throw everything else aside and be all in for the mission,” Coleman told Mashable....
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When Yuri Gargarin first went into space, he had two tubes of puréed meat and one tube of chocolate sauce. The first two American space flights were suborbital and only lasted 15 minutes, so the Astronauts didn’t bother eating anything. ...
Later, I'm getting into a T-38 jet. So it's a continuous process every day. Why do astronauts need to pass a physical? You need to be able to do spacewalks. You also need to be able to fly jets for training. So we need to make sure everyone's in their best physical ...
It is interesting how NASA(美国航天航空局)chose their astronauts for landing them on the moon.They chose men 1 the ages of twenty and thirty-five.There were about fifty of them.Some were 2 air pilots, and 3 were scientists with two or three degrees.NASA telephoned each man they were ...
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