Station Tour: Harmony, Tranquility, Unity

hello I'm Sonny Williams I'm up here on the International Space Station so this is no - this is a really cool module of course most of these modules you'll see they have four sides and they're put together that way we could sort of walk work on a flat plane either a wall a floor another wall or the ceiling but you know again all you have to do is turn yourself and your reference changes the reason I'm bringing that up is because this is where four out of six of us sleep and so people always ask about sleeping in space do you lie down are you in a bed not really because it doesn't matter you don't really have the sensation of lying down you just sit in your sleeping bag so here's one sleep station right here I'm going in right now you can follow me if you want so I'm inside it's sort of like a little phone booth but it's pretty comfy I've got a sleeping bag right here that we sleep in so we don't have a sort of like a little bit of a cover we don't fly all over the place but you know you can sleep in any orientation I have it sleeping feeling like I'm standing up right now but like you saw I'm on the floor but it doesn't matter if I turn over and I sleep upside down I can't have it I don't have any sensation in my head that tells me that I'm upside down so it really doesn't matter the sleep station is also like a little office we've got a computer in here as you can see we've got a couple little toys I've got some books I've got some clothes and other things that make it sort of like home I'm coming out and just for reference that's one sleep station this one's another right here there's one on the ceiling if you want to call it right here and then there's a fourth on the other wall over here so all of us sleep in a little bit of a circle all right come on back there's more to show you I know that there's some questions about how to use the bathroom and how do you actually live in space like normal like at home I mentioned real quickly about getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth and washing your face well how do you do that well here is the bathroom essentially you get up in the morning and we have a little kit and it has all the essential things that you need like your toothbrush and toothpaste and brush see how see how much better the brush makes my hair look I'm just joking it still stands up straight it doesn't matter where you are it's always going to stand up straight while you're up in space a lot of people ask about toothbrush and toothpaste so luckily enough toothpaste you can do it outside right this way it's sticky and so it sticks to your toothbrush no problem another cool thing is that water sticks to your toothbrush too you can see it I'll have some water come out water is pretty neat up in space it'll stick to your toothbrush and it will make a big bubble and that's just my surface tension and then you can drink it so a lot of people ask about what do you do with the toothpaste after you brush your teeth two options swallow it and it's sort of like mouthwash but it tastes a little gross or you can just spit it out in a paper towel and then you don't have to worry about it the only thing I wouldn't recommend at home I'm only up here for four months so it's not that bad [Music] one of the most pressing questions about using the living in space of course is the bathroom so let's take a look at that little piece of work come on and [Music] here we are at the throne this is awesome you might see the little um you might have noticed a little moon on the outside this is our orbital outhouse right here [Music] and of course it serves for two functions number two right here I'll show you but you see it's pretty small so you have to have pretty good aim and you'll be ready to make sure things get let go the right direction and it smells a little bit so I'm closing it up and that's of course for number two and this guy right here is for number one so there's sort of two slightly separate functions but you can do a little Sasebo Phi hanging on right here and doing number one and number two I might add it's color-coded so you really don't get it mixed up which is nice this is yellows for number one and also there's a selection of paper people always ask about toilet paper what do you do with toilet paper what kind of toilet paper do you have we have gloves just because sometimes it does get messy we have some Russian wipes which are a little bit coarse if you like the coarse type of toilet paper we have some nice tissues which are nice and soft if you like soft toilet paper we have Huggies just for any cleanup you know we're all babies once and this sort of helps and then if things get really out of control we have disinfectant wipes just to make sure we clean up here because you know just like the water I showed you the number one stuff can sort of go all over the place if you don't aim correctly and did I mention both of these have a little bit of section so they shouldn't keep things going in the right direction but like I said sometimes things get a little out of control if you are out of control yourself flying around so we have lots of protective stuff and of course you do have your privacy there's a little door so other people know that you're in there here's a pretty cool place this is sort of like in your house where everybody meets in the morning after you wash your face brush your teeth you want to find something for breakfast and this is our kitchen you might notice there's all sorts of foods here it's like opening the refrigerator you've got all your different stuff that you want to have drinks meats eggs vegetables cereals bread snacks and that's good place that's where you find all the candy side dishes and then some little power bars just in case so we have all this type of food some of it is dehydrated and so we have to hydrate it fill it up with water some of it is already made and then all we have to do is heat it up so something like this I'm pulling out barbecued beef brisket pretty yummy not only is this food made in the US but we also have food here from Japan we've got Russian food as you can see all these red containers are filled with food that's from Russia and then we get some of our specialty stuff some things that we like some of our favorite stuff that your family can send up in fact I like fluffernutter's and so I got sent up some fluffs so I could make my fluffernutter with peanut butter so you have a lot of food up here no problems

Channel: NASA Johnson

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Keywords: NASA, International Space Station, Expedition 33, Suni Williams

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 20 2012