Do female astronauts wear bras in space?

0 votes
asked Sep 9, 2022 in Science by MindeLisa (860 points)
Do female astronauts wear bras in space?

2 Answers

0 votes
answered Sep 22, 2022 by Daltonthreet (11,450 points)
Female astronauts do wear bras in space as an extra layer of coverage.

You can sneeze as well as cough in space.

In space when you sneeze or cough the droplets tend to float around unlike on earth where the droplets from sneezes and coughs can travel at 100 mph.

When astronauts poop in their suits or pee in their suits the astronauts wear an adult disposable diaper under their astronaut suits to pee and poop in.

When the astronauts are not in their suits then they pee and poop in a toilet like device.

For female astronauts to pee in space the female astronaut pees into a handheld funner and the pee gets sucked down through a hose and then it goes to a recycling device that recycles the urine into drinking water.

Female astronauts then defecate or poop into a device which looks similar to a smaller version of a regular toilet seat

The reason astronauts drink their pee is because it's an easy way to make water from the pee up in space instead of transporting heavy water into space.

Astronauts drink recycled urine because of the limited availability of water on board the spaceship.

The Astronauts recycle urine into drinkable water so they will have enough water to drink and save on water that they would otherwise have to haul to space with them.

Water is a precious and limited resource in space, so International Space Station crew members recycle it whenever possible, including recycling their own urine.

It only takes about eight days for the systems on the space station to process water.

Urine is boiled in the distillation assembly and delivered to the water processor, where it undergoes a cycle of filtration and chemical purification until it is usable by the crew – reducing costs associated with launching heavy water shipments to the station from Earth.

Water is heavy and hard to transport into orbit, which is why the International Space Station is a champion when it comes to recycling.

Even astronaut urine is captured and processed to make it drinkable.

Nearly all of the water astronauts drink and shower with comes from their urine and sweat.

Storage is hard to come by aboard the International Space Station.

An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.

Astronauts are paid according to the federal government's General Schedule pay scale, and they can fall on the GS-11 through GS-14 pay grades.

The pay grade is based on an astronaut's academic achievements and experience.

The starting salary for GS-11 employees is $53,805.00

Pee cycling is the process of recycling human urine and then using the urine as a fertilizer.

Pee cycling can also refer to the process of recycling human urine into drinkable water such as in space for astronauts to drink.

You can filter your pee and drink it and in fact astronauts drink recycled and filtered pee that is turned into drinking water.

You can actually drink your own pee without filtering it as pee is sterile at least for awhile but it's best to filter it before drinking it.

The reason astronauts drink their pee is because it's an easy way to make water from the pee up in space instead of transporting heavy water into space.

Astronauts drink recycled urine because of the limited availability of water on board the spaceship.

The Astronauts recycle urine into drinkable water so they will have enough water to drink and save on water that they would otherwise have to haul to space with them.

Water is a precious and limited resource in space, so International Space Station crew members recycle it whenever possible, including recycling their own urine.

It only takes about eight days for the systems on the space station to process water.

Urine is boiled in the distillation assembly and delivered to the water processor, where it undergoes a cycle of filtration and chemical purification until it is usable by the crew – reducing costs associated with launching heavy water shipments to the station from Earth.

Water is heavy and hard to transport into orbit, which is why the International Space Station is a champion when it comes to recycling.

Even astronaut urine is captured and processed to make it drinkable.

Nearly all of the water astronauts drink and shower with comes from their urine and sweat.

Storage is hard to come by aboard the International Space Station.

An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.

Astronauts are paid according to the federal government's General Schedule pay scale, and they can fall on the GS-11 through GS-14 pay grades.

The pay grade is based on an astronaut's academic achievements and experience.

The starting salary for GS-11 employees is $53,805.00
0 votes
answered Jul 19 by Caldecott (39,950 points)
Female astronauts do wear bras.

The need for support from bras in space is minimized in microgravity, although bras still are worn for coverage and comfort, especially during exercise or in professional settings.

NASA also allows the astronauts to choose their own undergarments, which include bras on their own personal preference.

What 9 months in spaces does to your body is that your body will experience some bone loss and muscle loss, most particularly in your legs and lower back, as your muscles atrophy from disuse and bones lose density.

Also fluid shifts in your body when in space an result in vision problems and an increased risk of kidney stones.

And once you return to Earth, you will also face a period of re-adaptation to the earth's gravity, which can affect your balance a well as locomotion and coordination.

The reason why astronauts lose blood in space is because the fluid shifts in the astronauts bodies when they enter the weightless environment of space.

The fluids that shift cause the astronauts body to destroy more red blood cells, than it normally would and this destruction of the red blood cells continues throughout the mission.

When in space a persons blood and other bodily fluids shift towards the head and potentially lead to increased blood volume in your upper body as space is a weightless environment.

The fluid shift in space can also cause a variety of physiological changes, including reduced blood volume and decreased red blood cell mass as well as an increased risk of blood clots.

When an astronaut returns to Earth from space, the body needs time to readjust to the gravity which can cause fainting and dizziness upon standing.

In space the blood does not pool as such, thus lowering the pressure in the feet but increasing it in the torso or head.

Without a space suit though the blood would boil and freeze and you would die.

While space is cold you would boil in space without a spacesuit as your blood, bile and even your eyeballs would boil furiously due to the low pressure of space.

Water would also boil in the vacuum of space but it would also freeze.

And the water would also boil at extremely low temperatures but it would also freeze due to the cold temperatures of space.

So like the water your blood, bile and eyeballs would boil and would also freeze in space as well.

Without a spacesuit in space, you would become unconscious within 15 seconds as a result of the lack of oxygen in space and your blood and bodily fluids would also boil and then freeze due to the extremely low air pressure and your body's tissues would also expand from the boiling fluids.

Immediately after the Big Bang occurred, the universe was a hot, dense state and was far hotter than anything we now observe.

And over time, as the universe expanded, the universe also cooled down.

And the cosmic microwave background radiation is also remnant of the early, hot phase and it also provides evidence of the universe's initial high temperature.

The universe began in an extremely hot and dense state and the Big Bang theory describes the initial expansion.

As the universe expanded, the energy density decreased and the temperature dropped.

The cosmic microwave background is the afterglow of the Big Bang, which is a faint radiation which permeates all of space.

And it's currently at a temperature of about 2.7 Kelvin or -455F, although it was much hotter in the early universe.

After the Big Bang, the universe was about 10 billion degrees Celsius and other research says that within minutes the temperature had dropped enough for the formation of hydrogen and helium nuclei.

The universe still continues to expand and the CMB radiation also continues to cool.

The early universe was a fiery place.

Space has a smell that is like gunpowder, sulfur, ozone and a faint acid smell.

We can't smell space directly, because our noses don't work in a vacuum.

However the astronauts aboard the ISS have reported that they notice a metallic aroma – like the smell of welding fumes – on the surface of their spacesuits once the airlock has re-pressurized.

Life in space is similar to life on earth however if yo go out into space you have to wear a space suit and other times you have to be in the space shuttle and there's also no gravity to hold you down.

Space is very dangerous – and without protection, people would not be able to survive there.

In space, there's no air – so you couldn't breathe. It's cold – so you'd freeze.

And there's lots of nasty radiation (from the Sun, and from the rest of the Universe), so you'd get really, really bad sunburn.

The only significant differences from living on Earth are that they operate in the confined space of the Space Shuttle orbiter cabin and that they, and all objects inside the cabin, float.

Because of microgravity on the Space Shuttle, some jobs, like handling tools and fluids, become more difficult.

There have been several people that have died in space.

There have been at least 18 deaths in space which include preparation for entry in space and those in space and some on return to earth from space.

A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for a space mission, in four separate incidents.

114,167 questions

124,952 answers

1,375 comments

7,059,696 users

...