When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.
I'm very low maintenance. I use Simple wipes to take off my makeup, wash my hair with whatever's in the shower.
There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.