If you decide to complain to the traditional summer shutdown of water, think twice. You will alllee a couple of weeks, and astronauts in orbit are no longer clean. There's not easy life there.
Overload when the "East" is more than serious. Therefore, the entire crew puts on diapers. But everyone hoped that they would not have to take advantage of them.
Sleep in space - a task for connoisseurs. There are no beds at the station, gravity too. So astronauts simply learn to relax muscles and sleep, drift in space. Newbies do not sleep - foured by gentleness of the brain when falling asleep creates the illusion of the rapid fall, sleep here. But everything comes with practice. One Russian astronaut so cared to dry out that he was often seen drifting in a dream throughout the station. Sometimes he fought about the walls and bounced off them, but did not wake up.
At the space station in the air they float not only astronauts, but all that is not pinned. Therefore, the walls of the modules are covered with a porous half fastener, and that half is glued to any small item that with hooks. All the little things need to be cling to the walls, otherwise they will float somewhere in the Japanese module, look for them there.
There are no cranes and soul at the station. Cosmonauts wash their hands with gelling soap, which you do not need to wash off, and the souls replaces wiping wet napkins. The worst of all things are with the cleaning of the teeth - in space you use special paste, which you can and should be swallowed because it is nowhere to sprinkle.
It is impossible to arrange a wrapper in space, so astronauts weeks, if not for months, we carry the same clothes. No, does not stink. Because of weightlessness, the clothes almost never come into contact with the body. In addition, astronauts are very little strained physically.
Space Toilet is a hose with a funnel at the end. All the astronauts are divided into the world, absorbed into this hose. To make it easier to do, there are attachments for hands and feet in the toilet, for which it is necessary to firmly cling. Even the most trivial campaign "on the little" takes 15 minutes.
Space smells. Of course, you do not even smell it in the scaffle. But a bit of the cosmic smell is delayed in the gateway chamber where the cosmonauts fall after entering outdoor space. As for the smell, they can not come to agreement. Some say - "Wet winter jacket after you are in the snow", others - "burnt almond cookies." Someone will have the smell of welding, and the other is ozone, gunpowder, superheated engine and even steak. The source of this smell is in dying stars producing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Some cosmonauts spend in orbit for several months, and they need to stand from time to time. The machine for the cosmic haircut is called FlowBee and this is essentially a powerful vacuum cleaner with a trimmer.
When you look at the stars around the space station, it seems that I spent the whole life in some bubble. Astronaut Mike Massimino says that the difference is the same as between the overseas of the sun through the water from the bottom of the pool and a walking day. Stars do not flicker. They are very bright and shine smoothly as the searchlight.