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>> Scott Kelly: Hi, my name is Scott Kelly, and I'm an astronaut
for the International Space Station.
What I would like to show you today is where we sleep; an area called crew quarters
and we have four here along both walls, the ceiling and the floor.
This is [inaudible] of the International Space Station.
Mine is located on the ceiling right here.
I'd like to welcome you inside and show you around.
This is inside of the crew quarters and although it's located on the ceiling because the floor is
by my feet and the ceiling in 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 in any of the locations,
normal orientation I guess you could say on the International Space Station.
In here we sleep, this is where we get our, change clothes, we brush our teeth
and shave and those kind of things.
We also take a little sponge bath.
We don't have a shower here onboard the International Space Station
so we have to use a sponge bath.
We also do some work.
I have two computers in here.
One is more of a computer for connecting to the onboard systems
and particularly like email and 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.
It's sporadic and pretty slow at times.
It's actually a nice capability to be able to get on the Internet realtime, send emails
and receive emails from my normal work email account if I desire to do that to maybe get on
and do some online banking if I need to do something like that.
You can actually even buy, you know, 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 really comfortable.
More comfortable than on earth for me at least.
I sleep much better up here than I do in my own bed at home.
So, even though you're floating, I guess because it takes 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.
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 to get the sleeping bag zipped up far enough.
Some people like to be kind of 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 the 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, you know, Voice over IP basically 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.
As far as clothes are concerned, we don't have a whole lot of space here
so all the clothing we use in six months is probably what you could fit
in one large suitcase.
A shirt generally lasts you about a month, pants maybe two months, underwear, you know,
anywhere from three to five days, socks about a month, and workout gear about a month,
but you know it's really odd for some reason you don't feel like the clothes get that dirty.
The environment is pretty nice up here temperature,
humidity wise so you don't really sweat in the clothing that you're wearing.
It's not necessarily up against your body all the time because you're kind of floating inside
of it so it doesn't, I would never consider wearing a shirt or a pair of pants,
shirt for a month or a pair of pants for two months at home,
but for whatever reason up here it doesn't seem too bad.
I also have some books.
It's kind of nice to be able to read in space.
Something you don't really get to do on a shuttle mission.
So I've got a couple of books here.
One by one of my personal heroes, Ernest Shackleton about his Endurance expedition
to the Antarctic and another one called The Long Walk about a group of people that escaped
from a prison camp and basically walked across the continent of Asia to get home.
I also have some personal pictures up here, but I took them down for this for privacy reasons,
but in any case 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.
Thank you.