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people would like to know do astronauts
drink tang I don't think we have tang
specifically onboard but we do have lots
of fruit juices and coffees and teas and
and water and even no milk do astronauts
drink their own pee well thank you for
asking us to repeat these questions in a
sense yes we take the the condensate
that the system collects up the urine
and all that gets processed and then put
out of a portable water dispenser which
is right over our head so everyday
that's pretty much what we do keep their
suits unfortunately not no our
spacesuits and quite valuable pieces of
equipment can astronauts cry in space of
course astronauts can cry in space you
know the water in space is different
because it sticks to your skin it's
almost like like this gluey substance
that just has this ability to stick to
your skin so if you were to have a
really big cry then your eyes would just
swell up with water and stead of
dropping off okay and astronauts wear
glasses of course they can wear glasses
jeff has his glasses on right now I'm
wearing contact lenses young tim peake
doesn't need glasses but we surely can
wear them
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can we whistle on the moon the real
question is can we whistle in a space
suit and it can be very difficult
actually when you're outside doing a
spacewalk and it would be the same on
the moon because in that in that case
you're breathing 100% oxygen which means
you're at a much lower pressure so when
you're at a lower pressure
whistling becomes a little bit more
challenging we certainly can whistle
here do astronauts need passports when
we come home we do need passports
because we land in Kazakhstan and we
have to go through customs and so our
ground team makes sure that we have our
passports so that we can actually leave
Kazakhstan and go back to America when
we're done
the astronauts vote in space yes we can
vote in space in fact NASA has been very
good about setting up a process so that
we can participate in the electoral
process do astronauts wear diapers yes
is the answer to that question when we
launch in the Soyuz we have at least a
couple of hours before launch sitting in
that spacecraft and then we have to go
through a 6-hour rendezvous and then we
have to spend a couple of hours from
docking until actually getting onboard
the space station so you also wear
diapers when we go outside the space
station to a spacewalk we could suspend
anything from eight to ten hours inside
that spacesuit sometimes longer so with
the joven to take precautions and wear
diapers just in case you need to use it
well as thoughts can drink alcohol when
we're training on the ground or planet
Earth but alcohol is not permitted
onboard the space station and astronauts
have piercings I'm pretty sure there
have been some of the female astronauts
that have been up here the ladies that
have had pierced ears and that kind of
thing other than that I don't I'm not
aware of any but I'm also not aware of
any restrictions so but I would suggest
if somebody gets a piercing they do it
on the ground not here can humans
colonize Mars of course we can colonize
Mars it's a it's both a technical and a
political question because it would take
tremendous amount of resources and that
has to have the political will and the
funding to do that and then I'll
obviously we need to develop the
technology both to get there quickly
land on the planet and then be able to
live there but I'm certain that someday
we'll be able to see that hopefully in
our lifetime station this is Houston ACR
thank you that concludes the event thank
you have a great day
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