Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 144, Space Hygiene. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. On this

podcast we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

One of the top questions, if not the top question, that NASA receives from kids and really from people around the world is,

how do you go to the bathroom in space? We get questions like this all the time.

Other popular ones are, how do you eat, how do you talk to your family how do you sleep I

think we get these questions so often because they're so relatable things we do in our

own lives every day so in space when it comes to hygiene you can probably guess that it's something that the crew is prepared to do and has trained on how to do these things and use these systems on Earth before they even get to space.

And there's a lot to it, because a lot of what you and I take for granted becomes a whole lot harder in space.

Showering, shaving, doing laundry.

Is there even laundry?

Here to talk about space hygiene are the very people that train astronauts on how to take care of themselves in space.

On today's episode is Aliska Hicks and Mike Barrel.

Their crew systems instructors, Aliska Hicks and Mike Barrel. They're crew systems instructors, Aliska with Lido's and Mike with KBR,

based here at NASA's Johnson Space Center. And they're here to answer some of the most

popular questions about living in space.

So here we go.

Going to the bathroom in space and overall space hygiene with Aliska Hicks and Mike Barrel.

Enjoy. enjoy. And it's by second, county. Mark.

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