jtotheizzoe: Washing Your Hair on the Space Station Expedition...

jtotheizzoe:

Washing Your Hair on the Space Station

Expedition 36 astronaut Karen Nyberg has a unique challenge in space that Chris Hadfield didn’t have to deal with.

She’s got long hair, and lots of it.

Here she explains how she washes her goldy locks in space. It’s not that different from how you might wash your hair on Earth, only with much less water and no elegant, tropical essence créme conditioner.

Even though they have water recycling systems on the ISS (yes, they drink recycled urine), water is a limited resource on the ISS. That means no “Rinse, Repeat". As she explains, all those escaped globs of liquid will be sucked up and recycled, too.

The science they do in space is awesome, but the modified routines of daily life might be even cooler.

I would be remiss if I did not include the following image:

(by insideISS)