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Blast off and spend 24 hours in space with the astronauts who completed NASA's first ever all-female spacewalk! Christina Koch and Jessica Meir share an intimate look at their out-of-this-world routine on the International Space Station, revealing their health and hygiene habits, their daily assignments, and how they keep themselves entertained as they orbit the Earth.

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00:00we're over a lot of ocean right now yeah we're over the Pacific we're gonna come over the tip

00:13of South America

00:30I'm Marie Claire I'm Christina Cook of NASA and I'm Jessica Neer

00:51we're both NASA astronauts living on board the International Space Station and I've actually

00:55been here since March 15th I think it's somewhere almost 250 days something like that that's about

01:01200 days longer than me and actually tomorrow will be my 50th day on the International Space

01:05Station the last 50 has been the best it's been pretty amazing being up here together with both

01:11of us having worked and been friends together and colleagues for so long one of the highlights

01:16of my 50 days thus far was the spacewalk that Christina and I conducted together we were

01:21doing a series of spacewalks to upgrade some batteries and then something went a little

01:26bit awry with the battery channel and we had to do an unplanned spacewalk to replace the battery

01:31charge discharge unit the ground team planned for that in only a couple days that spacewalk was

01:35also the highlight of my mission to be a part of both professionally and personally of course

01:40it's just an extraordinary experience the views are amazing on board our days consists mostly of

01:47maintenance of the space station and doing science to basically benefit life on earth and also to

01:53further our goals of exploration a lot of the work we're doing here on long duration space flight is

01:58going to inform the future missions that we do back to the moon and also on to Mars outside of our

02:04workday which is about 12 hours long in and of itself we have meals with our friends and we have

02:10other hobbies we can do keep in touch with people on earth look out the window take pictures read watch

02:16movies this is my favorite window to read by you can usually find me here on Sunday mornings sometimes

02:23it's sunnier though and that's a little bit nicer we don't have a ton of time for free time but what we

02:29do we make the best of it and I think the real joy about living up here is getting to know your

02:33crewmates and getting to spend time with them we hope you enjoy our day aboard the International Space Station

02:40a very important part of our daily routine on the International Space Station is exercise this

02:46ensures that we keep our muscles and bones healthy and that we can come back from our missions back

02:51to earth still in a healthy state so this is our resistive exercise device where we can actually

03:02achieve the same thing as lifting weights would be on earth in space in microgravity just like on the

03:10ground we have to wash our hair in space too so I'll show you a little bit about what that looks

03:14like in microgravity so we get some of our drinking water in a pouch like this a little initial rinse

03:21basically I'm just squeezing the water out of this drink bag as you can see here and I'm just getting

03:31that all in my hair one of the things that's interesting up here when I would work out on the

03:37ground if I'm running or biking or doing any kind of exercise I always have my hair back so it doesn't

03:42get in my face of course up here actually you don't need to do that it never gets in your face so often

03:48I'll just leave it down but when I say down up here it usually ends up being mostly up up like this but it

03:56stays out of your face while you're working out so that's all you need so I'm just working all the

04:02water through here getting a nice little rinse and of course because I'm in space I can also

04:11do it with what looks like being upside down to you you can feel like spider-man when we jump up to

04:18the ceiling like this up here it's gonna get a little bit of shampoo in here especially at the roots

04:23give it a bit of a scrub first I'm gonna get some of it out with a towel now we'll give it a rinse

04:34perhaps the most important part of washing the hair is getting rid of all the extra hair that's

04:41falling out so I don't leave it around all over the space station for my crewmates to find some

04:46people have described it a bit like you're floating along and suddenly you get hit in the face by something

04:51that feels like a spider web because somebody's long hair is just floating there in front of you

04:55and you can't see it okay I'm ready for my conditioner work some of that in here and this is just a leave-in

05:03conditioner and that's it that's how you wash your hair in space not that complicated so today we're

05:13gonna harvest the mizuna lettuce that we've been growing for about the past month this is the fourth

05:18iteration of the veggie experiment and this one is in particular looking at different light levels so

05:22we have two different wavelengths of light as you can see this one is a bit more red on the top and

05:27this one on the bottom is a little bit more blue so today Christina and I are harvesting the lettuce

05:31as I mentioned we'll be cutting several of these leaves off half of it to go back a pound of the

05:36ground with a scientist to evaluate and half for us to make some delicious salads up here and that

05:41is quite a treat for us to have fresh lettuce up here on the space station since we don't have any many

05:46opportunities to have fresh food so right now drew Morgan and Christina cook are doing a tool audit of

05:58the spacewalk tools for the upcoming spacewalk series that we will start this Friday here's Christina

06:04she's photo documenting the tool config for one of the crew lock bags they're doing this work in the

06:17airlock this is the area where the crew members get suited up in the space suits they'll be right here

06:23mounted to the wall getting into the space suits and then they'll go out just past Christina there into

06:28the crew lock and that's the area that we will depressurize in order to then open the hatch and go out into the

06:34vacuum of space to start the spacewalk another way that we spend our day on board the ISS is doing

06:40maintenance on the space station itself so you can see Jessica here is doing some cleaning of one

06:45of our ventilation ducts that's important because dust and debris that's in the air doesn't really fall

06:51to the ground in microgravity so it actually all ends up on the surface of our ventilation ducts

07:04what are you having for dinner oh man so but I have Indian fish curry in and also a rushing can

07:13that I actually took out already that's one of my favorites yeah I've got meat tips and mushrooms

07:19and uh start with the pea soup okay there you go try it

07:33I was gonna try the beef steak I haven't actually tried the beef steak it's good

07:41let's put some music on for dinner absolutely all right I'm gonna attempt to do your trick and get the

07:46whole peel off in one okay I have an honorary mirror oh smell that smells so good it's so fresh

07:53look at you orange I was gonna find one I know

08:02man that would have been so awesome

08:11this is our hygiene station

08:13can't go a night without a faucet you know me

08:15believe me I do oh this is that um exfoliator I'm telling you about

08:20I used it and I really like it

08:21what do you think I knew you would because it's all natural and it's actually food-based even

08:25yeah it was just like there was some sugar in it

08:27yes yes that's sweet it's like not gross if it gets in your mouth

08:30but I used it the other day and I felt like my skin looked really good

08:33yeah it's kind of like camping in some ways you know

08:37it is a lot like you have everything you need you just don't have running water it's just all a

08:41little different luckily we go with low camping maybe I will try some of my uh facial cleanser today

08:58we're gonna come over the tip of south america

09:04Hey, Goose.

09:10Hey.

09:12Our only time to stare at the Earth is after work, right when we shouldn't be getting blasted

09:18by someone.

09:19We're over a lot of ocean right now.

09:21Yeah, we're over the Pacific.

09:22We're going to come over the tip of South America.

09:27Awesome.

09:34I'll shut down.

09:42Good night, Earth.

10:04Good night.

10:10Good night.

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