On the radio the crew use to communicate with mission command, we heard Commander Reid Wiseman asking where are the team’s pyjamas.<\/p>\n
He asked for their “comfort garments”, before the astronauts went into the sleeping area for about four hours.<\/p>\n
Schedules in space are incredibly strict. Every minute is accounted for by Mission Control.<\/p>\n
Today, the crew are sleeping for about four hours at a time, adding up to eight hours over a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n
Sleeping in space can be tricky. The crew must strap themselves into special hanging sleeping bags, and generally some astronauts struggle to nod off as their bodies adapt to weightlessness.<\/p>\n
But others say their best sleep ever is in space.<\/p>\n
This crew have strict instructions to exercise for 30 minutes every day to protect their muscle and bone density as they live without gravity. <\/p>\n
Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover went first, testing out Orion’s “flywheel exercise device”, which is about the size of a carry-on suitcase.<\/p>\n
Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen were scheduled to exercise later on – using the wheel for rowing, squats and deadlifts. <\/p>\n
We assume they’ve had their first meals too, from Nasa’s tailor-made Artemis II menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the radio the crew use to communicate with mission command, we heard Commander Reid Wiseman asking where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}