Life, far from our home planet, of course, differs from the earthly one. The conditions of staying in outer space, in total weightlessness, completely change the life of astronauts. In this article, we tried to list, in our opinion, the most interesting facts from the life of people in the open universe.
Astronauts tell journalists facts about space:
- Almost everybody arriving in outer space experiences the so-called "space disease". This is an unpleasant sensation because the inner ear receives distorted signals. The disease is expressed in headaches and nausea.
- In conditions of weightlessness, the fluid in the human body moves upwards, which is the cause of obstruction of the nose. Faces become somewhat puffy. Bones lose calcium intensively. There is a slowdown in intestinal function due to muscle atrophy.
- As the pressure on the spinal column decreases, the height of the person increases slightly. As a rule, astronauts are constipated in orbit.
- In 2001, an experiment was conducted that showed that snoring on Earth did not snore in space.
- It is rather difficult to fall asleep quickly in orbit, as the biological cycle changes due to the observation of 16 times the sunrise every day.
- If a person is in outer space without a spacesuit, his lungs will explode due to decompression. Fluids on the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, and eyes will boil out completely
- Most likely, women who have artificial breasts will not be able to be space tourists. Specialists of Virgin Galactic, which is engaged in tourism in space, believe that implants can explode.
- Astronaut John Glenn once had a problem swallowing chewed food because of a lack of gravity. The first astronauts were provided with dehydrated food in cubic briquettes and tubes.
-Modern astronauts can use liquid pepper and liquid salt for seasoning. If the hard pellets fall apart, they can break up and fall into the ventilation system or into people's nose and eyes.
- To use a space toilet, it is necessary to sit on it exactly in the center. The correct technique is practiced on a special layout with a camera.
- NASA engineers tried to organize a mini toilet right in the suit. A gynecological insert with a special shape was to be used for women and a dense condom for men. Later this idea was abandoned and diapers were used.
- Immediately after returning to the earth's surface, astronauts can hardly move their limbs. For this reason, their landing is called a second birth.
- People who have spent a long time in weightlessness say that the hardest thing to get used to in normal life is that objects fall when you let them go.
- Nobody has died in space in the history of cosmonautics.
- There have been accidents, but all of them have taken place either at Earth launches or at descent from orbit. All the dead astronauts died in the atmosphere.
- During the day, the sunrise in orbit can be observed sixteen times, so astronauts adhere to the conditional "Earth time".
- Staying weightless significantly reduces the amount of calcium in the bones.
- In orbit, the growth of astronauts increases by an average of 4-5 centimeters, as the spine, which is no longer affected by earthly gravity, straightens.
- Many products astronauts eat only in liquid form, from tubes.
- The astronaut who spent most of his time in orbit is Valery Polyakov. His 438-day record is still not broken.
The longest continuous stay in space is 14 months. This record also belongs to Polyakov, who spent all this time onboard the Russian orbital station "Mir".
- Most astronauts initially suffer from a "space disease" caused by weightlessness. It is expressed primarily in nausea and dizziness.
- Astronauts from Apollo 11, who visited the Moon, passed customs control upon their return. In the customs declaration, it was written down, "Cargo - moon dust and rocks.
- Astronauts aboard the ISS woke up and stood upon the signal sent from the Flight Control Center on Earth.
- Astronauts who snore on Earth do not snore in space.
- After returning to Earth, many astronauts find it difficult to get used to the fact that objects fall down and do not continue to hang around if they are released.
- When brushing teeth astronauts have to swallow foam from toothpaste, so the toothpaste they have a special, conditionally edible.
