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Do astronauts drink tang?

I don't think we have tang specifically on board, but we do have lots of fruit juices and coffees and teas and, and water.

And even now milk two astronauts drink their own pee.

Well, thank you for asking us to repeat these questions in a sense.

Yes, we take 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 every day, that's pretty much what we do.

Can nationals keep their suits Unfortunately not know.

Our space suits are quite valuable.

Pieces of equipment.

Can astronauts cry in space?

Of course astronauts can cry in space.

Uh, you know, the water in space is different because it sticks to your skin.

It's almost like uh 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 instead of dropping off.

Mm Can 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.

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.

Two 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 make 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 space craft and then we have to go through a six hour rendezvous and then we have to spend a couple of hours from docking until actually getting onboard the space station.

We also wear diapers when we go outside the space station to a spacewalk.

We could spend anything from 8 to 10 hours inside that space suit.

Sometimes longer.

So with the Hovan to take precautions and where diapers, just in case you need to use it.

Mm.

Yeah.

Well astronauts can drink alcohol when we're training on the ground on Planet Earth, but alcohol is not permitted on board 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.

Yeah.

Can humans colonize mars?

Of course we can colonize mars.

It's both a technical and a political question because it would take a tremendous amount of resources and uh that has to have the political will and the funding to do that.

And then 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.

Er Thank you.

That concludes the event.

Thank you.

Have a great day.