• Question: What do astronaughts do for fun on the international space station

    Asked by DJSJosh to Hannah, Lucy, Phil, rochellevelho, Stephen on 8 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Phil Sutton

      Phil Sutton answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Most likely looking down at the rest of the world doing much less exciting things. If I was on the space station I’d be having lots of fun floating about into things and enjoying the weightlessness of being in space.

    • Photo: Stephen Pulker

      Stephen Pulker answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Looking out of the window, taking video out of the window, reading, watching films, exercising, mucking about in 0-gravity . . . similar to what you might do . . . just with 0-gravity . . . and a good view.

    • Photo: Lucy Kissick

      Lucy Kissick answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      In space you don’t feel the pull of Earth’s gravity and so float: imagine being underwater but you’re actually just floating in air. Astronauts have a lot of fun flying around the space station and playing with things like water, which in microgravity forms floating spheres!

      If you’re near Earth, you’re going to want a window seat: if you’re aboard the International Space Station you’ll be orbiting the Earth once every 92 minutes, which means around 15 sunrises a day. Good spot for some photography and people-watching (billions all at once).

      You can always still read, play computer games, listen to your iPod, and get TV shows by satellite. But I think I’d take a while to get bored of doing slow-motion somersaults and zooming from one end of the ship to the other in a superman pose.

    • Photo: Hannah Sargeant

      Hannah Sargeant answered on 12 Mar 2017:

      The most fun is probably staring out the window, they built a dome for the astronauts to stick their head in to get a better view! For some reason Tim Peake decided to run a marathon in space by tying himself to a treadmill! I don’t think I would find that fun!

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