Match the photos to their description. One description is extra. The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays, and other components. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars. It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day. When astronauts first started traveling in outer space, much of their food came in squeeze tubes, similar to toothpaste tubes. As you can imagine, food from a tube would not be that delicious, and the astronauts were not thrilled with this "food in a tube." Another food item that the astronauts used to eat were small bite-sized cubes of food . These were somewhat better than the squeeze tube food, but still did not taste too great. Food comes in several forms on the space station. Dehydrated meals come in pouches to which hot water is added before eating and Russian cosmonauts still receive tinned foods that can be heated in the can before opening. The original table in Zvezda has special compartments for heating cans. Sauces like mustard, ketchup and hot chilli are all available, just like on the table back home. But the salt and pepper have been transformed into liquids, otherwise the station would be full of floating granules of salt. The crew also look forward to the fresh fruit that is sent up with each cargo mission, though it doesn't keep any longer in space so it has to be eaten fairly soon after arriving. After a long day working in orbit, there is nothing like a good night’s sleep! However, sleeping is a little different in space. There is no up or down, and everything is weightless. Astronauts attach their sleeping bags to a wall or a ceiling. On the International Space Station (ISS), most of the crew sleep in their own small cabins. It is important that sleeping quarters are well ventilated. Otherwise, astronauts can wake up deprived of oxygen and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide has formed around their heads. There are 16 sunsets and sunrises every 24 hours on the ISS, so it is not easy to know when it is time to sleep. Astronauts work and sleep according to a daily time plan. They are usually scheduled for eight hours of sleep at the end of each mission day. In weightlessness, you are effortlessly floating, because all of the acceleration forces on you add to zero. The most comparable feeling is floating in water without the sensation of water on your skin. Because you feel so light, you can move about with the slightest amount of effort. Pushing off a surface too hard, which is the common mistake of all first-time free-floaters, results in you zinging around like a Ping-Pong ball. Nice and easy does the trick. And there is no up or down in weightlessness, so you need to figure out which orientation visually works best for you. Peter Pan never had it so good and Michael Jordan only gets a few seconds of hang time. In weightlessness, you have all the hang time you need. In close quarters personal hygiene is a must, but the weightless conditions make washing a delicate chore. Water droplets can cause choking if inhaled and can short-circuit equipment, so many astronauts use the music-festival favourite: moist wipes. Hair-washing is trickier. Men tend to get military buzz cuts before a mission. Even Sunita Williams, who spent 195 consecutive days on the space station – a female record – had her long dark hair chopped to shoulder length but still had problems. "Washing took time. I'd squirt a little water under my hair, pat it down with my hand so it wasn't splashing everywhere, then put some shampoo in my hand and moosh it around. Then I'd wet a towel and try and soak it up. I usually did it on a weekend when we didn't have a whole lot of other things to do," she says. None

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Match the photos to their description. One description is extra.

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- The International Space Station \(ISS\) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays, and other components. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars. It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day.
- When astronauts first started traveling in outer space, much of their food came in squeeze tubes, similar to toothpaste tubes. As you can imagine, food from a tube would not be that delicious, and the astronauts were not thrilled with this "food in a tube." Another food item that the astronauts used to eat were small bite-sized cubes of food . These were somewhat better than the squeeze tube food, but still did not taste too great.
  Food comes in several forms on the space station. Dehydrated meals come in pouches to which hot water is added before eating and Russian cosmonauts still receive tinned foods that can be heated in the can before opening. The original table in Zvezda has special compartments for heating cans.
  Sauces like mustard, ketchup and hot chilli are all available, just like on the table back home. But the salt and pepper have been transformed into liquids, otherwise the station would be full of floating granules of salt.
  The crew also look forward to the fresh fruit that is sent up with each cargo mission, though it doesn't keep any longer in space so it has to be eaten fairly soon after arriving.
- After a long day working in orbit, there is nothing like a good night’s sleep! However, sleeping is a little different in space. There is no up or down, and everything is weightless. Astronauts attach their sleeping bags to a wall or a ceiling. On the International Space Station \(ISS\), most of the crew sleep in their own small cabins. It is important that sleeping quarters are well ventilated. Otherwise, astronauts can wake up deprived of oxygen and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide has formed around their heads. There are 16 sunsets and sunrises every 24 hours on the ISS, so it is not easy to know when it is time to sleep. Astronauts work and sleep according to a daily time plan. They are usually scheduled for eight hours of sleep at the end of each mission day.
- In weightlessness, you are effortlessly floating, because all of the acceleration forces on you add to zero. The most comparable feeling is floating in water without the sensation of water on your skin. Because you feel so light, you can move about with the slightest amount of effort. Pushing off a surface too hard, which is the common mistake of all first-time free-floaters, results in you zinging around like a Ping-Pong ball. Nice and easy does the trick. And there is no up or down in weightlessness, so you need to figure out which orientation visually works best for you.
  Peter Pan never had it so good and Michael Jordan only gets a few seconds of hang time. In weightlessness, you have all the hang time you need.
- In close quarters personal hygiene is a must, but the weightless conditions make washing a delicate chore. Water droplets can cause choking if inhaled and can short-circuit equipment, so many astronauts use the music-festival favourite: moist wipes. Hair-washing is trickier. Men tend to get military buzz cuts before a mission. Even Sunita Williams, who spent 195 consecutive days on the space station – a female record – had her long dark hair chopped to shoulder length but still had problems. "Washing took time. I'd squirt a little water under my hair, pat it down with my hand so it wasn't splashing everywhere, then put some shampoo in my hand and moosh it around. Then I'd wet a towel and try and soak it up. I usually did it on a weekend when we didn't have a whole lot of other things to do," she says.
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