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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. l 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 ...
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