Smelly, noisy and awash with dead skin cells: life on board the International Space Station
by Alice Gorman and Justin St P Walsh for the Convers from Science | The Guardian on (#59VN1)
The ISS this week celebrates 20 years of taking on board its first guests - but the accommodation is not exactly five star
This week marks 20 years since the first residents arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiting habitat has been continuously occupied ever since.
Twenty straight years of life in space makes the ISS the ideal natural laboratory" to understand how societies function beyond Earth.
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