Would You Ever Like To Try Life In Space

What if one morning when you wake up you are told that you would be taken to one of the space stations and you would have to spend a week there? How would you react? Would you start packing your bag for your journey to space? Or, would you just sit and think what life in space actually is like? Do they also live the way you live on earth? Do they also have all the cool stuffs you have got to do? What all technologies are used to fulfill their basic amenities? How do they survive for months and years in such a place where there is no gravity? Well, they don’t get to do all the cool stuffs but they surely have the basic amenities any human would require to survive, but in a quite different manner.

It is a fact that there is no gravity in space, still the astronauts can live and work to meet their basic needs. On earth, you have got your legs that help you move from one place to another. Although astronauts have got their legs too, but due to absence of gravity in space, the astronauts float there to move from one place to another. Isn’t this really cool? Whatever you do, wherever you go, you are always floating. Can you imagine yourself eating, reading sleeping, bathing doing everything while floating? Now, the question is, what and how the astronauts eat? Earlier, space foods were packed in aluminum tubes for ease. But recently the space food items have expanded with nearly 150 different types. The kind of meal they have is similar to that on earth, but the way they eat is a bit different. Along with them, their food also floats. So you can well imagine how they eat.

Now when it comes to their clothing, except for their spacesuits, they wear the same type of clothes that we wear on earth. The difference is that they don’t have the facility of laundry in space so they need to carry extra clothes. But, bathing in space is a quite difficult task. Unlike on earth, they don’t have water in a zero gravity environment. So, the astronauts use wet towel or alcohol to clean themselves. Moreover, they use waterless shampoo that doesn’t need water to get washed off. After using the waterless shampoo they use dry towel to clean it. They too have toilets which is around one square meter in size and the astronauts need to fit them over that. It more or less looks like the western style toilet that we use on earth, but instead they use a machine to suck up the waste.

When it comes to sleeping, the astronauts sleep while floating, but they have eye masks and ear plugs that help them have a sound sleep. There is the Crew Medical Officer available for any kind of medical emergencies. And for their leisure time they have got their books or they can listen to music or they can also spend their time relishing the beautiful view of the space. So, if given a chance would you like to try the life in space?