In June this year, two American astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, flew to the International Space Center for an eight-day mission.
But due to technical fault, his hopes of returning to Earth have been delayed for eight months.
NASA scientists are trying to bring them back to Earth by February 2025. Right now they are sharing space with nine other people in a space that is about the size of a six-bedroom house.
Sunita and Wilmore revealed in a recent video that they are living very well. But, is it easy or difficult to live 400 kilometers above the earth? Former astronauts revealed this.
The astronauts said that living in the International Space Center is not easy. There one has to exercise for at least two hours every day, wash clothes by oneself, and take special care of what one eats.
Most importantly, the smell of space is very strange. One also revealed that he sweats a lot even without exercising.
He could not move so that the beads of sweat would not float in the air. He had to spend three months in one pair of pants.
Starting the day by getting up early in the morning
Former astronauts reveal the secrets of survival on the ISS to the BBC. They wake up at around 06:30 in the morning.
Astronauts sleep in a phone-booth-sized bedroom in the ISS module called Harmony. US NASA astronaut Nicole Stott spent 104 days in space on two missions in 2009 and 2011.
He says that whenever he misses his family, there is a corner for photographs and books related to them.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who commanded 35 missions in 2012-13, says most of the astronauts’ time in space is spent on maintenance or scientific experiments.
There are six laboratories for various experiments in the ISS. The size of the center is as big as a football field. According to him, “From inside it looks like many buses connected together. Many times it happens that you do not see a single person for half a day. There is a very peaceful atmosphere in the ISS.
What does space smell like?
Some lucky astronauts get the chance to walk in space outside the International Space Station. Hadfield says he has had this chance twice.
He says, ‘I spent 15 hours in space. Only my plastic mask stood between me and the universe. This time was just like the rest of my life.’
But during the space walk I realized that the ‘space smell’ is like the smell of some metal. On Earth we smell many different smells.
But space has only one smell and we get used to it very quickly.” Also, there is no weather in space. You don’t get rain on your face and your hair doesn’t get blown away by the wind.
Just one pair of pants for three months
Nicole Stott says that working all day long makes one sweat a lot. This is the biggest problem. “We don’t have any laundry equipment.
There is only water that forms droplets and some soap-like substance. The clothes get so dirty that they are put into space to be burned. She explains, ‘In zero gravity, clothes float on the body, so oil or anything else has no effect on them.
I had the same pair of pants for three months.’ Instead, food was the biggest worry. She says, ‘For example, someone opens a lunch box, it has meat and gravy in it. Everyone is alert that the fat from the meat should not float in the air.
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