How do they deal with dead skin in the air, cough spatter and other small flying things in space stations?
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Major Tim Peake actually discussed this on yesterday’s No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. Because you don’t walk or use your feet as you would on earth, after a few weeks or months in space your feet shed dead skin like crazy. They have suction vents they have to take their socks off next to to catch all the dead skin.
Major Tim Peake answers some questions like this in the latest “No Such Thing As A Fish” podcast =)
Actually not an expert but …. filters. They need a ventilation system or they die. They filter that shit out….
For once it’s not rocket science.
If I were an astronaut I’d always be terrified of inhaling something in my sleep. Like if a screw or something happened to come loose and was just floating around.
HEPA filters. I work at Intel and these are the basis of providing a VERY clean, clean room.
Where are all of the belters?
So there was a video today of one of the astronauts washing her hair. Some of the water went floating off. What do they do about that? Couldn’t that get into the electronics and cause problems?
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Astronaut Terry Virts actually discusses this in his book “How To Astronaut”. Basically it all gets sucked into the air filters, and one of the routine maintenance tasks is for some lucky astronaut to clean out the filters
They have filtration systems on the air recycling which catch particles in the air like fluff in a vacuum cleaner filter.
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