Life in spaceBy Sarah Tiana and

Georgia

Do astronauts require more or less sleep than normal when they are in Space?

• Astronauts sleep 0.5-2.5 less hours then on Earth.

• Have around 6 hours sleep.• Can have as little as 4 hours sleep

and not be tired.• Sleep ranges from 4-8 hours.• Don’t require more sleep in space,

only need around the same as Earth.

Sarah’s bibliography

http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news

http://www.scienceinschool.org

http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/statiion/living_sleeping.htm

Do astronauts sleep in a bed?If they don’t, how do they sleep?

• Sleeping in space is depended on the requirements of the particular mission

• In the first flight astronauts slept in the commander and pilot seats

• They want to make sure they are available at all times.

• Other crew members sleep in their seats, in sleeping bags or in bunks.

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• The sleeping bags are like cocoon they are strapped to their locker were all of there stuff is stored in.

• In microgravity there is no “up” and the astronauts can sleep as comfortably in the position as the horizontal.

• A bunked kit was made available by the time of the sts-9 mission crew members could sleep in a three horizontal bunks.

How many hours of sleep they get

• In earth we all need beauty sleep, 8 hours is the length of hours we need.

• Astronauts sleep 4-8 hours each night • They have to take pills and medicine to make

them sleep• Even with the help of medicine they don’t get

as much sleep like they would on earth.

How they relax

• When they have time to relax they connect with friends and family

• They connect either email, ham radio, phones or the internet

• They also get packages with CDs ,books, magazines, photos and letters

• They say that the most relaxing thing to do is look out into space