Life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) is far from ordinary.
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With everyday tasks like eating, sleeping and using the bathroom made incredibly difficult by the lack of gravity, we take look at how the astronauts on Expedition 36, the latest mission to the ISS, have adapted.
21 May 2013 – The sun is captured in a starburst mode over Earth’s horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members as the ISS was above a point in southwestern Minnesota.
31 May 2013 – When off-duty time comes for crew members onboard the ISS, astronauts often like to take advantage of the micro-gravity to do things that they can’t do on Earth, such as hang upside down or suspend fruit in air.
1 June 2013 – It’s haircut day for Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, a cosmonaut with Russia’s Federal Space Agency, in the ISS’s Unity node.
2 June 2013 – In the Harmony node of the ISS, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT), technically named the Treadmill 2 and abbreviated as T2.
22 May 2013 – In the JAXA Kibo lab of the ISS, Expedition 35 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA speaks with an aggregate of Florida students and press during a Q&A event.
3 June 2013 – Inside the Cupola, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, captures a veiw of Earth some 250 miles below. Cassidy has been onboard the ISS since March and will continue his stay into September.
6 June 2013 – ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano gets a workout on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) in the Tranquility node of the ISS.
Ezzy Pearson is the News Editor of BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Her first book about the history of robotic planetary landers is out now from The History Press.
