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[Bill McArthur] Well, good morning!
You all really got an early start today.
It’s 6 a.m. on board the International Space Station.
I’ve just finished a good night’s sleep.
We generally go to bed at 9:30 at night.
So that gave me a nice eight-and-a-half hours of sleep.
Anyhow, it's great that you've decided to join us so early.
If you will kind of bear with me just a little bit,
I will get here out of my bed, or my sleeping bag,
and I’ll give you a little bit of an introduction, or a little bit of a briefing,
on how we do things like sleep on board the station.
What I would like to do first is show you the sleep station that I use.
It is called "TeSS" -- for Temporary Sleep Station.
And this is located in the forward end of the U.S. laboratory.
And you can see a few of the decorations that I put on it.
As we go into TeSS, the first thing you see is my sleeping bag.
And then you can see the sleeping bag is just, it’s kind of like a normal sleeping bag.
It’s just a fabric cover.
And I’ll tell you a little bit more about it shortly.
There you can see some of the pictures that I have on the wall. Family. Pet.
There you can see, well, in the back you can see there the headset I use
when I want to make telephone calls to family or friends, or anyone for that matter.
And there's my laptop computer.
I use that of course for all the things that you use a computer for.
E-mail. I can read books on it. Magazines. I watch television, movies.
It's really quite convenient.
And, now, I would like to tell you a little bit more about my sleeping bag.
Here is my sleeping bag, or spal'nyymeshokin in Russian.
It's got some very nice little features in it, and I'll demonstrate them for you.
Of course, unlike a sleeping bag on Earth,
with this one I don’t have to lay it down to get into it.
Some of the unusual, sort of space-like features
are that it has a little slot for each arm to come out of.
That serves a couple of useful functions, of course,
one is it allows me to do work inside my little sleep station.
It allows me to work on the computer if I would like.
Plus, also, if I get a little warm it allows me to stay in the sleeping bag, still be restrained,
which is a different function for our sleeping bag.
You know a sleeping bag on the ground really is just designed to keep you warm.
This one is also designed to keep us from moving around so much.
We can secure it to the floor or the walls
or the ceiling, if you really want to sleep in an unusual fashion.
And anyhow, I can get completely in my sleeping bag, be nice and toasty,
and get a great night’s sleep.
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