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  • Hi there,

  • I've had a lot of people ask me how I wash my hair in space,

  • and I thought I could show you how I do it.

  • Let's see.

  • To get started, these are the things I need.

  • A bag of warm water.

  • A little no-rinse shampoo.

  • A towel.

  • And my comb.

  • What I like to do is start by, just, putting some hot water, squirting it onto my scalp.

  • And I have a mirror here so I can kind of watch what I am doing.

  • Sometimes the water gets away from you, and you try and catch as much as you can.

  • And I just work the water up through to the ends of my hair.

  • And I take my no-rinse shampoo.

  • And squirt it also on the scalp,

  • just a little bit,

  • and rub it in, again, gonna work it up to the ends.

  • And sometimes I'll actually take my comb to help work it all the way to the ends.

  • And I like to take my towel while I have the shampoo, and there, just kind of ... work it.

  • Because without standing under running water, you kinda need to use the towel little bit to help get some of the dirt out.

  • I like to follow that by a little more water.

  • It's called no-rinse shampoo but I think it's best of use a little water with it.

  • Actually feels kind of squeaky clean right now.

  • Now I take the dry part of my towel.

  • We use towels for quite a while here.

  • Since we have limited supplies,

  • we use them wisely.

  • There, I think that's pretty good, and now as my hair dries, as the water evaporates from my hair,

  • it will become humidity in the air,

  • and then our air-conditioning system will collect that in the condenser,

  • and it won't be long and our water processing system will turn that into drinking water.

  • At the end I just do one final comb through to make sure there are no snarls and snags.

  • And while it dries, I like to let it stay free.

  • I don't put it back in a ponytail while it's drying.

  • And that is how I wash my hair in space on International Space Station.

Hi there,

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