For most people, washing your hair is pretty simple. You stand under some running water, lather up with shampoo, and rinse it out.
But when you're in space, orbiting 249 miles above Earth, showering isn't that easy. As this astronaut showed us with a wet washcloth, gravity is not on your side out in the "final frontier."
Since 2013, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been filming and releasing videos explaining how they do everyday things when flying through space.
And thanks to this incredible video from Karen Nyberg, we're about to learn how astronauts wash and comb their free-floating locks. It might not seem like rocket science, but it's a rather hair-raising feat!
The International Space Station, launched in 1998, is the largest artificial body in orbit. It can actually be seen from Earth with the naked eye!
Currently occupied by astronauts and cosmonauts from the United States, Europe, and Russia, the International Space Station holds the record for the longest continuous human presence in space. Its crews have conducted many experiments in biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields.
After watching this video and seeing the huge sacrifices they make every day, I definitely have a renewed respect for astronauts.
With strange beauty routines like these, do you think you could survive in space?
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