How do astronauts take their shower?

Question

How do astronauts take their shower?

Answer 1

Right?!

Answer 2

I would love to take a shower in weightlessness.  That sounds amazing.

Answer 3

There is currently no shower in space. Instead, astronauts clean themselves by using wet clothes. It was once planned to add a shower to the ISS, but the infrastructure on the ISS is not favorable for it, as water is a very limited resource on the ISS and water treatment systems are not available yet.

Skylab and Mir had been the only stations yet with a shower on board.

There is also a video in the Internet, where you can see how an astronaut washes her hair in micro-gravity.

Answer 4

The space station has a full body shower unit. When astronauts want to take a shower, they step into a cylindrical shower stall and close the door. They then get themselves wet and wash up just like you would on Earth. However, due to weightlessness, the water droplets and soap don't flow downwards into a drain, they float about. Astronauts use a suction device to get rid of the waste water. I do not think that the shuttle has this unit, but you can use a moist bath sponge to clean yourself in the shuttle if you want.

from http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questio...

Here is a cute cartoon with garfield about taking a shower/bath in space

http://quest.nasa.gov/space/challenge/le...

Here is a picture of an astronaut taking a shower/bath in space. He pulled down the shower curtain so they could see him

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/cap...

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