Name: Top 10 Craziest Facts About Living in Space
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ST Jocks was carried from the pod, feeling the pull of gravity for the first time in months.

And today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10.

Craziest things you didn't know about living in space.

I started crying, my eyes full of tears, but you can see it just forms a ball on my I.

There is no up or down for this list will be going over some of the strange and lesser known fax about spending time in outer space.

If you think we were out of our minds toe, leave out some out of this world.

Please share them with us in the comments.

Most people have probably heard of Tang, but food eaten in space has come a long way since the early days.

In the early Apollo days, NASA's space food team developed improvements in freeze drying technology.

That same technology makes it possible for food to remain shelf stable at ambient temperatures for long periods of time, while significantly reducing the weight of the food.

Food taken into space used to be packaged in tubes to prevent spillage and for ease of consumption.

Like most things, weight is a major consideration, since it's more expensive to transport the heavier IT ISS.

But the most important calculation is what things way.

That's because it costs $10,000 for every pound blasted off to the astronauts.

Nutritional value and the food shelf life are also important factors, as it needs to provide everything.

Astronauts need to stay healthy for a long as it can, Often packaged in lightweight, specially sealed containers, space food comes in plenty of variety these days, particularly on the international space station, with hundreds of different dishes to choose from.

Very good number nine body proportions change.

The human body isn't exactly made for being in space, so there are some side effects.

Is spending a lot of time up there to help with this.

Astronauts wear compression cuffs on their thighs to help keep the blood in their lower extremities.

These effects can range from vision problems to muscle deterioration without gravity working on your body, your bones and muscles start to break down to.

In fact, bone density drops by over 1% per month, But one of the most pronounced changes is the shape of the body itself.

Without gravity pulling on it, the spine straightens out, adding toe astronauts heights.

Blood flow also tends to move upward as well, giving space travelers of puffy face ah, wider torso and giving the legs of shrunken appearance.

This extreme makeover space edition is just temporary, however.

Number eight hygiene problems Staying clean is tough enough on Earth, but space adds plenty of its own problems.

Showers and baths air untenable In a zero G environment, we can't take a normal shower because the water doesn't know where, how to find the drain so we don't have a regular shower, so astronauts are forced to use sponges to wash themselves.

Special soaps and shampoos that don't require rinsing are also used to cut down on water.

You need toe add water and then you get a nice, uh liquid soap pouch, which needs to last for about two weeks, and it's a no rains type of socket doesn't make a lot of foam, and it doesn't really need to be rinsed.

Speaking of which, because surface tension keeps liquid close to the skin, they can make do with a small amount of water overall.

Sometimes I'll actually take my comb, help work it all the way to the ends.

They also have to be very careful when shaving or combing their hair, because loose hairs float freely and could be inhaled or get in people's eyes.

Sleeping Difficulties You think getting a good night's sleep is tough?

Trying to sleep in space would probably be a nightmare for insomniacs.

It's so bad that they have to actually take bungee cords and strap them down to a wall to make them feel like they're laying on something, because otherwise, the constantly feel like they're falling.

For starters, the international space station rotates around the Earth multiple times per day, leading to each day, being only around 90 minutes.

This could play havoc on sleeping schedules.

In addition, astronauts must be strapped in so they don't knock into anything while floating, plus the insides of the station are actually quite noisy, as all the machines produce sound, necessitating earplugs or sleeping pills to help put the astronauts out the pills they're taking our reportedly prescribed to treat insomnia and anxiety, or even brain disorders and muscle tension on the ground.

Users of these hypnotic drugs have experienced amnesia and anxiety, even behaviors like sleep driving.

Although there are some benefits, such as a reduction in snoring, the journey toe unconsciousness is an uphill one for many number six space adaptation syndrome.

Motion sickness is what happens when your brain can't reconcile the fact that we're immobile yet in motion on Earth, everything floats.

There is no up or down, and for 70% of first time spacefarers, the initial couple of days in orbit means they will feel ill similarly or rather, opposing Lee astronauts.

Brains have a difficult time adjusting to a lack of gravity and the strange sense of motion while in space.

And we think that that motion sickness occurs because of a difference between what our eyes air seeing and what our inner ear or vestibular system is sensing.

And that disconnect tells the brain that something weird is going on and gives you that sense of nausea or motion sickness.

Space adaptation syndrome occurs usually upon reaching space, with over half of space travelers experiencing illness, vomiting and other discomfort as a result of the sudden change.

Even the specialized training astronauts undergo to withstand nausea isn't enough to eliminate it completely.

We're getting queasy, just thinking about it.

So, yes, astronauts do occasionally get sick and space.

But we have special, uh, barf bags to deal with it.

The most famous pieces of clothing astronauts.

Where are the spacesuits used for moving around in the vacuum and getting the entire suit on requires a bit of help.

It makes a little difficult to get in these air incredibly cumbersome and difficult to put on, but offer protection from the conditions of space.

Then there are the flight and entry suits don by astronauts as they ascend or descend in a shuttle or reentry pod while aboard the spacecraft.

However, most astronauts, where pretty typical clothing and so it's very rare that you either get really cold or really, really hot, and so so it's a pretty much a shirt sleeve environment as we refer to it on Earth.

The main difference, though, is that they can't launder clothes due to the aforementioned water considerations and what it is very scarce in space.

We also recycle our water, and we only use it to drink or to wash.

They don't sweat as much, which means they can wear clothes for longer without changing and when they do get too dirty.

Clothes are generally disposed of with other garbage number four toilets.

So everything in space seems more difficult than it is on Earth.

It's actually one of the questions astronauts get the most, probably because, like the famed book says, everybody poops.

Most of the toilets in space function using differential air pressure to dispose of waste.

But you see, it's pretty small, so you have to have pretty good aim.

Make sure things get let go the right direction.

Liquids are sucked into a tube and eventually jettisoned into space.

Solids, meanwhile, are retained on board until return to Earth.

You take this red tab, you pull it off the rim on.

Then you push it down in there with all its other friends.

Sending poop hurtling through space at high speeds is apparently frowned upon.

We certainly wouldn't want that to be our first contact with an alien world.

The Dangers of Flatulence No, we're not kidding.

Farting can actually be hazardous in space.

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