and today we're going
to spend a little bit of time talking
about clothing that we wear in space that
we need as astronauts to perform our duties
in space also to launch from the
launchpad and return home safely as well
because we're in space we have very little
limited re-supply of items and we cant be changing
our clothes every portion of our clothes
everyday we just don't have enough clothing
on board to be able to do that we don't
go outside of course its a little more sterile
environment inside of here and so we
don't pick up the normal dirt the you pick
up just going outside your home or something
and so our clothes don't get as dirty
as quickly as they do on the planet
so we can actually extend the life
of those the useful life of those a little bit
further than what we normally would do on earth
we don't have a way to wash our clothes and so
we wear them until they're not wearable anymore
due to odors or whatever it might be
and then we discard those into a like
a mesh bag we use as like the clothes
hamper and then those clothes are packed away in
the progress resupply vehicle the comes
up that brings us re-supplies and then when
it departs we actually fill it full of trash and
some of this trash is our old clothing
that can't be worn anymore it's not clean
on any given day we'd be dressed about like this
with a pair of cargo pants or shorts and a regular either a
or button down shirt buttoned shirt like this
type or polo shirt with a collar or even just a
t-shirt Rarely the temperature inside
of here is maintained around seventy two or seventy three
degrees Fahrenheit so its very very comfortable
and so its very rare that you either get really
cold or really really hot and so it's a
pretty much shirt sleeve environment as we would refer to it
on earth but very comfortable
to wear short sleeve shirts in here
this might
look a little different than what you've seen
the shuttle astronauts wear and when I flew
on my shuttle mission to have a
space shuttle launch and entry suit and it's
a little bit different it's actually orange in
color but it's a pressure suit and its
to protect us on assent until
we get to space that provides a suit that will
keep us alive and protect us even
in the vacuum of space so here's the
Russian socal suit the Russian word socal
means Falcon and this is the launch and entry suit
that we wear in the Soyuz vehicle
here's the EMU the space suit that
we wear on our space walks
and right now its connected to the the wall we call it the eda
we actually get suited up
connected to the wall and when we are ready
to go for space walk we unlock the suit and then we go into
airlock which is right here to my side here and thats where
the hatch is that we open up to go outside
so in six months I was only in this suit for twenty two hours
the rest of time the remaining five months six
months we spent in just normal clothes that we
wear inside just like I have on
We have alot of these exercise shorts just athletic shorts
they've got a little lining inside
and so they are very very handy just like
a regular exercise shorts you would wear
on earth so those are about the same but we wear
we wear these probably we try to get three to four
exercise periods out of these before we change them
out just because of the numbers that we have just a regular
t shirt that we'd wear and its
actually very very comfortable
its a very very soft material and we use that to
exercise also alot of these shirts have had the antimicrobial
fibers that are interwoven into the material
so helps us deal with any kind of odor you might have
with like dirty clothes this is the flight suit
that we have been issued and this is actually more used
for different public affairs events a public
relations types events or interviews and things
like that on camera and so very comfortable but not
overly functional in space although you can see
that we have on here as well we have had that a lot
of patches of velcro to assist us with
holding on to things and keeping track of our tools
a lot of our clothing comes up actually arrives
here on space station before we even get here it
comes up on progress resupply vehicles and it comes
with our name on them right here and
packaging like this and its usually waiting on us
when we get here here's a clean shirt that
I'm looking forward to putting on the next
couple of days so this is sorta how they come
packaged in vacuum packed in these little bags thank
you for joining us in the air lock
and I thank you for listening to how we dress
for success as astronauts