Bath: Do they take baths while living and working in the space shuttle? Eating in Space. Eating in microgravity can be very different than eating on Earth. Credits: Fred Sayers Imagine going camping for more than a week with several of your close friends. You would make sure you have plenty of food and the gear to cook and eat it with. The food would have to be stored properly and be nonperishable to avoid spoilage. After finishing your meal, or at the end of your camping trip, you would then stow all your gear and dispose of your trash properly just before the ride home. Astronauts basically do the same thing when they go to space.
Preparation varies with the food type. Condiments, such as ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise, are provided. Astronauts eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. As on Earth, space food comes in disposable packages. Additional Resources This video topic is part of A Day in the Life Aboard the International Space Station resource and STEM on Station site. Sleeping in space. After a long day working in orbit, there is nothing like a good night’s sleep! However, sleeping is a little different in space. There is no up or down, and everything is weightless. Astronauts can attach their sleeping bags to a wall or a ceiling, and sleep anywhere as long as they don’t float around and bump into something. On the International Space Station (ISS), most of the crew sleep in their own small cabins. If there are not enough of these for everyone on board, an astronaut can sleep in one of the ISS modules. It is important that sleeping quarters are well ventilated.
There are 16 sunsets and sunrises every 24 hours on the ISS, so it is not easy to know when it is time to sleep. When it is time to wake up, the crew uses an alarm clock, or music broadcast by mission control back on Earth. Last modified 05 July 2011 mascot bouncer 0 Living in space. Sleeping in Space. Life in Space. International Space Station toilet tour. Samantha Cristoforetti: Hello, and welcome to the toilet of the International Space Station. Let’s say you’re up here in ISS and you need to go to the restroom. You want to come to this cabin and the first thing you want to do is grab this piece of equipment and turn this rotor switch ninety degrees to the open position. What that does is it turns on a fan which creates a suction effect in this hose so that you can use this yellow element for your number one. For number two the principle is actually exactly the same ... suction.
We have a solid waste container here and on top of it is this err … seat. And the solid waste container is connected via this hose to the same fan so that again the same suction in fact allows you to do your number two in weightlessness. The solid-waste container gets changed when it is full which is roughly every ten days for a crew of three people using it. Samantha Cristoforetti Facts for Kids. Samantha Cristoforetti (born April 26, 1977) is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot an engineer. She is the first Italian woman in space and holds the record for the woman with more time in space with 199 days and 16 hours. Cristoforetti is also the first person in prepare an espresso in space. Biography Cristoforetti was born in Milan in 1977. She spent her childhood in Malè, Val di Sole, Trentino, Italy. On July 3, 2012, the European Space Agency assigned to Cristoforetti a long-duration mission to the ISS in 2014.
Images for kids Samantha Cristoforetti in a special sleep bag that stops the person from drifting around in the micro-gravity of ISS. Cristoforetti in a Space Suit (EMU) Paxi on the ISS: How to brush your teeth in space! How do Astronauts Live Eat Sleep and use the Bathroom in Space. Cooking in space: whole red rice and turmeric chicken. Brushing your teeth in space. The Red Planet. ESA - Space for Kids. Immagini LIM - Unità 1 - Lez. 1. Immagini LIM - Unità 1 - Lez. 2. StarChild: The Solar System. StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers. Yuri Gagarin. Listen to an audio version of this page. Yuri Gagarin was born near Moscow, Russia on March 9, 1934.
He died on March 27, 1968. Yuri joined the Soviet Air Force in 1955. By 1959, he was training to become a cosmonaut. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth! The name of his spacecraft was Vostok 1. Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour. Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash before he could travel in space a second time. Planet Earth Structure Archives - Easy Science For Kids. Space Science: Astronomy for Kids. Science >> Physics Credit: NASA What is Astronomy?
Astronomy is the branch of science that studies outer space focusing on celestial bodies such as stars, comets, planets, and galaxies. History of Astronomy Perhaps one of the oldest sciences, we have record of people studying astronomy as far back as Ancient Mesopotamia. Later civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, and Mayans also studied astronomy. However, all of these early scientists had to observe space with just their eyes. Major Discoveries and Scientists Galileo Galilei made major improvements to the telescope allowing close observations of the planets. Portrait of Galileo by Giusto Sustermans Johannes Kepler was a famous astronomer and mathematician who came up with the planetary laws of motion that described how the planets orbit the sun. Isaac Newton explained the physics behind the solar system using his laws of celestial dynamics and gravitation.
In the 20th century we are still making major discoveries in astronomy. Bitesize - Who was Neil Armstrong? On July 16 1969, after a breakfast of steak and eggs, Neil Armstrong and his crew mates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, blasted off on their mission to land on the Moon. Their Saturn V rocket was the most powerful machine ever built. It was 110 metres tall and had as much power as a nuclear bomb. After launch, it took four days to travel over 200,000 miles to the Moon. When they arrived, Neil's job was to fly the lunar module called Eagle and land it safely. It was incredibly risky; however, with just seconds of fuel left, Neil reported back “the Eagle has landed”.
Neil and Buzz then opened the hatch and climbed out. Back on Earth, more than half a billion people watched on television, waiting to hear what Neil would say: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. " Neil and Buzz spent nearly three hours walking on the Moon. When it was time for them to return, Neil and Buzz left the surface to rejoin Michael who had been orbiting the Moon in a separate module. Planets Song Video.