do the astronauts in the space station age differently than us on earth
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A little, but the concept is greatly misunderstood. It’s not a way of time traveling. It’s a spacetime relationship, which is hard to understand for a lot of people as spacetime itself is a strange concept.
Simply put, even in the extremes where you can travel incredible distances, you’ll always be handicapped by the fact that you’re traveling extreme distances and will never encounter anyone outside of your general vicinity experiencing similar spacetime. So you’ll never notice anyone or anything being any different, because everyone around you will not be all that far away.
The effects are technically possible to experience at significant levels in the most science fiction extremes approaching light speed, but this is more or less impossible. It’s a thought experiment only.
Practical time dilation is really only experienced in atomic clocks and similar systems relying on unfathomable precision.
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