Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Now back to the questions...

How do you shower in space?
-- Matt (Team Gemini)

MAGNUS: Actually, we do not take showers; we take sponge baths. Gravity is very helpful when it comes to taking showers. You get in, turn on the water and it falls on you since gravity is pulling it down where it goes to the drain and disappears. Without gravity, this system does not work so well. If you turned on the shower, the water would come out and just stay attached to the shower head and grow a bigger and bigger clump of water. If you managed to detach it, and float it towards you, you would have to be careful to keep it away from your nose and mouth (so you could still breathe). Also, to get rid of the water once you were done with it, you would either have to use a towel to wipe it all up or perhaps turn on some air flow and create a way to move the water out that way. It is tricky designing a shower in space!