As with the long sea voyages of the past, crews and passengers on long space trips to Mars and elsewhere will need ways to stay mentally active and engaged:
Category Archives: Living in Space
ISS spacewalk canceled after water leak in spacesuit
At the start of an EVA on the International Space Station today by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Amercian Christopher Cassidy, water soon began to build up inside Parmitano’s helmet from a leak and they had to cancel the EVA and return quickly to the airlock. The cause of the lead is not yet understood : Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak – Spaceflight Now
Here was a NASA briefing on the aborted EVA:
Video: Drinking coffee in zero-gravity
The latest NASA ScienceCasts video deals with The Zero Gravity Coffee Cup:
See also The zero gravity coffee cup – Science@NASA/Phys.org.
And there is the older video from 2008 with astronaut Don Pettit demonstrating the fluid actions in weightlessness and how the zero-g coffee cup works:
The history of going in a spacesuit
Hunter Hollins of the of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has written an academic article giving the history of “how to urinate in a spacesuit”:
- Where do astronauts go when they need ‘to go?’ – Phys.org
- Forgotten hardware: how to urinate in a spacesuit, Hunter Hollins, Advances in Physiology Education 37: 123–128, 2013
Video: Shampooing in microgravity is a hair-raising activity
Astronaut Karen Nyberg, a member of the Expedition 36 Crew on the International Space Station, demonstrates in a new video how she washes her hair in space: Shampooing in outer space will make your hair stand on end – NBC News.com