Life On The International Space Station

Fluids

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Espazioa

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UNIT 5.

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Majority of people are white males

Question 2: Knowing that plastic packaging is incredibly harmful for Earth because of the pollution and chemicals, how can the Nasa and Spacex renovate the packaging to be more eco-friendly? Are the astronauts aware of how much waste this creates for our environment?

Question 3: It is evident that there has been a lack of equality, how can Nasa and Spacex ensure that the future generations of astronauts can be more inclusive with equal rights?

Question 1: Do the astronauts living in the ISS have a hard time sleeping and adjusting in their new environement and how does their lack of gravity impact their sleep?

Male Astronauts:206

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Female Astronauts:38

Astronauts that have visited the ISS

Total Number of People: 244 indivuals

Excersise

Why?

It's extremely important that astronauts get enough physical exercise each day because of the lack of gravity in space, their bones can get compressed and their mussels could weaken if not properly exercised. Physical activity also is beneficial for the well-being of astronauts it stimulates the brain mussels.

How do they exercise?

Since there is no gravity in space, their are specialized equipment like a treadmill with bungy cord straps that hold the runner in place acting as gravity. Each piece of equipment is specialized for zero-gravity.

What kinds of excersise?

Running on a treadmill, cycling on a bike machine, lifting weights

How much exercise daily?

2 hours

Sleep

How long can they sleep?

8 hours

How do they sleep?

The astronauts get into their sleeping bags, which have special strap seat belts to hold it implace, they can sleep standing up becomes they have no perception of gravity.

Where do they sleep?

In the crew cabin, a rectangular hatch with a sleeping bag, similar to a capsule hotel.

Daily living

Freetime

Most astronauts describe that they use their freetime to catch up with family via calls and emails and they like to simply gaze upon the earth in the look-out hatch.

Work Habits

As much fun as it seems to be floating around all day, astronauts actually do a lot of hard work. They must follow a routine from 6:30am to 9:30pm. Throughout the day they work on repairing the ship, cleaning, conducting experiments, meeting in with the base, doing 2 hours of exercise, having 3 meals and some freetime.

Health Habits

Hygiene

Do they use deodorant?

Yes, it's located in there personal hygiene kits and they use it normally.

How do they clip their nails?

Much like on earth they use nail clippers to simply clip their nails, however because of the zero gravity the nails would fly everywhere so they use a vacuum to suck up the nails.

How do they brush their teeth?

Similarly to brushing teeth on earth, the astronauts are provided toothpaste and a toothbrush in a hygiene toiletry bag. They brush their teeth normally except that their is no sink so they either swallow the tooth paste or spit it in a cloth.

How do they have a shower?

How do they go to the washroom?

How to wash hands after?

To sanitize hands, there is soap and water available to wash in the hygiene kit.

Number 2

Number 1

When astronauts need to go number 1, they have to go into the ISS bathroom, close the sliding door, turn the vacuum on and pee into the vacuum device that simply sucks the pee down into a waste management system.

Nutrition

How do they store the food?

Aboard the ISS, there is a kitchen area with locker trays where the food is stored. There are also padded mages that have gum and miscellaneous foods that are strapped to the wall. There are re-hydration machines and reheat machines in the kitchen area.

What do they drink?

Astronauts commonly drink water, however there are freeze dried juice, tea and coffee mixtures that astronauts add water to.

How do they drink?

In the ISS, there is actually a water filtration system that transforms urine into clean water. Clean water is stored in aluminum pouches with a straw and astronauts squeeze the water out and slurp it up.

How they eat?

Astronauts use a special food rehydration machine that pumps hot water into the food pouch, they must mix it in evenly.

What they eat?

Astronauts must eat non-perishable, unrefrigerated, packaged food. Space food is usually sealed tightly in plastic or aluminum pouches. The food can range from chicken, to pizza to brownies and any food as long as it's rehydratable and vacuum sealed. However, carbonated drinks, alcohol, salt and pepper are not permitted to be eaten aboard the ISS.