In space, a shower can be cause for spending the night in.
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)
There’s nothing more awkward than when a bit-too-friendly cosmonaut serving with you on the International Space Station finally asks you out.
Caught off guard by his forward request to join him for yet another viewing of “Contact” followed by a romantic spacewalk, you mumble an excuse about having to wash your hair and try to quickly float past him to the nearest hatch.
The showering cop-out isn’t just weak sauce because it’s an old sitcom trope, but it’s gotta sting all the more with the knowledge of the fact that there is no traditional showering on the ISS.
Fortunately, U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg is relaying her best tips to help navigate such orbital faux pas.
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