Continuing where we left off yesterday, here we have a portion of the island of Newfoundland from space.
This is the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
And here is Vancouver.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have a lot of work to do, but they need their downtime, and they get it.
This guitar is an example of another one custom made by a Canadian company and sent up to the ISS. The trick was to shrink the guitar down somewhat, while maintaining its musical sound.
Eating on the ISS poses its own challenges. There's much more variety than the days of the Apollo program, but there's a lot that you can't take up there. Muffins, for instance, leave crumbs- not the sort of thing you want in a microgravity environment.
Here we have the suit of a Canadian astronaut, the sort of space suit used for exterior work on the ISS.
And Mission Control is always a call away.
There is no shortage of work to be done on the ISS.
It's good they get some down time.
ReplyDeleteThey need it.
DeleteInteresting post, the spacesuit is cool. Take care, Happy Friday! Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
Delete...the accommodations are too cramped for me.
ReplyDeleteCramped is a certainty.
DeleteSpace travel is still a challenge as even the little things have to be looked after very carefully.
ReplyDeleteThat's true.
DeleteLots of things to think about when you live in space.
ReplyDeleteThere are.
DeleteGreat looks at the space station. You hope everyone gets along.
ReplyDeleteYou do.
DeleteTight quarters and longs stays....I don't know if I could do it!
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteLiving in space has a number of challenges. Human bodies were not meant to exist in zero gravity.
ReplyDeleteTrue.
DeleteOn clear nights I enjoy watching the ISS as it passes by here. It remains special that every hour and a half a number of astronauts pass by.
ReplyDeleteIt goes fast.
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