Hi my name's scott
kelly and I'm an astronaut
aboard the international
space station what I'd like to
show you today is where
we sleep and they are called
crew quarters and we have
four here along the bulk walls the
ceiling and the floor
and this is node 2 of the
international space station
mine is located on the ceiling right
here and I'd like to
welcome you inside and show you
around a bit this is the
inside of the crew quarters and although
it's located on the
ceiling because the floor is by
my feet and the ceiling
and the crew quarters is by my
head it doesn't feel like
I'm sleeping on the ceiling at
all it just feels like I'm
sleeping at any of the location's
normal orientations you could say on the
international space station in
here we sleep this is where we change
clothes we do uh brush
our teeth and you know shave and
those kind of things also we
take a little sponge bath we don't have
a shower here aboard the
international space station
so we have to use like a
sponge bath and we also do some
work so we have two
computers in here one's more of a
computer for connecting to
the onboard systems particularly
like email procedures we
have a program called world
map where we can see where
we are over the earth managing
all of our picture taking
and also our schedule is also
on this computer our
timeline and this other computer here is
for accessing the
internet on the ground though
it's sporadic and pretty
slow at times it's actually a nice
capability to be able to
get on the internet real-time
send emails and receive emails
from my normal work email account
if I desire to do
that maybe get on to do some
online banking if I need to
do something like that you can
actually even buy a
present if you needed to sleeping is
done on the wall here in a
sleeping bag it's a very comfortable way
to sleep once you get
used to it at first it can
be rather difficult but
once you get the hang of it it's
actually very comfortable
more comfortable than on the
earth for me I sleep much
better up here than I do in my own
bed at home and so
even though you're floating I
guess because it take a lot
of the pressure off your body it's
actually rather
comfortable some holes here for your
arms and I sleep just like
this and if I don't zip the sleeping
bag up far enough
sometimes I float into the
computer and it wakes me up
which isn't fun so I try and get the
sleeping bag zipped up
far enough some people like to
be secured against the wall
with bungees so they feel like
they're more in a bed but
I like sleeping just kind of
floating here like this
sometimes I put my hands together it
seems more comfortable
but it's a great way to sleep I
get easily six to seven hours
sleep on a good night but if we're
really busy sometimes
less unfortunately but like I
said better than I do on
earth what else do we do in here
we have a telephone
it's kind of like a skype phone
it's voice over IP basically
it just uses the computer and as
long as we have the
proper satellite connection we
can call anyone on the
earth just using these Bose headsets
and this microphone like
this very convenient some books
it's kind of nice to read in
space something you don't really
get to do on a shuttle
mission so I got a couple of
books here one by my one
of my personal heroes Earnest
Shackleton about his
endurance expedition to the
Antarctic and another one called
the long walk about a group of people
that escape from a
prison camp and basically walked
across the continent of
Asia to get home I hope you enjoyed
the tour here and kind of
got a sense for what it's like
in our living quarters aboard
the international space station