Questions tagged [hygiene]
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Nudism in space: Why wear clothes anyway?
Currently, doing laundry in microgravity is an unsolved engineering problem. The result is that clean clothes on the International Space Station have become a consumable resource. Clean clothes get ...
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Can you take a bath on Mars?
A common picture of someone floating on the Dead Sea or Great Salt Lake, shows how high you float.
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If you had that water in a bath tub, I don't think you would sink to the bottom, you would just ...
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How did Skylab's "space shower" work?
Skylab had a shower to help the astronauts bathe.
How did the astronauts get wet? (Fixed nozzle, movable showerhead, etc.; volume of water)
How did they get themselves dry?
How did they contain and ...