Space Hygiene
Failure To Launch
English - April 13, 2023 16:24 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBAviation Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode, Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris talk about the history of Space Hygiene and the worst space mission that everyone survived. Topics covered include:
The Soviet and American test subjects who didn't bathe for science
The Gemini 7 astronauts who stewed in their spacesuits for two weeks
The Salyut cosmonauts who almost drowned using the first space shower
Sources:
Packing For Mars, Mary Roach
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/mission_trans/gemini7.htm