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“Most dead skin is washed down the drain when we bathe, but in space there’s no shower and no gravity for the particles to fall to the floor — the dead skin simply floats in the air.”

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Space seems less and less glamorous with each moment. 🤦‍♀️

“In 2013, NASA released the mission logs of the Apollo 10 mission, which graphically documented the problem of a “turd floating through the air.”

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Space flight is so glamorous!

“For instance, studies in space have shown that astronauts’ arteries stiffen, aging the vessels by an equivalent of 20 years on Earth for every six-month or so period in space.”

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I may have to reconsider my childhood astronaut dream…