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Failure To Launch

Space Hygiene

Apr 13, 2023 · 45 min · 64.9 MBExplicit
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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:

  1. Packing For Mars, Mary Roach
  2. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/mission_trans/gemini7.htm