How do astronauts take showers in space?

Answer 1

sponge bath,...really

Answer 2

It is not possible to take a shower as you know it in Space. Everyone on board uses a Jacuzzi Bath Tub which has one of those whirl pool motors in it to circulate the water at high speed and frothing the water with air bubles. Jacuzzi Bath Tubs are located roughly Midships in the space ship, and each of the Astronauts has their own little ruber duck to play with in the circulating warm water. On certain missions these little ducks are named by the Astronauts, and on other trips, the ducks are named by NASA Officials after well known political figures such as Hillary Honey, Forgetful Ronnie, Never Did It Bill, and Judas Gomez. One can always tell when the Astronauts are taking turns in the Jacuzzi because their absence always occurs when the computers are broken down and repoirtedly being fixed. This description was agreed to when it became apparent that news reporters could not be advised that half of the crew was bathing, and could not be disturbed.

Water for the Jacuzzi Bath Tub is recycled five times through extensive filtering apparatus and reused before it has to be dumped overboard. The western section of Texas is usually favored as the high altitude dumping area for this waste water because of their recent drought problems. Specific dump areas are marked on almost every space navigational map with brown colors designating the preferred dump sites. I know of only two occasions when these areas have been overshot during waste dumps. The most recent one occurred over the Rapid Deployment Air Guard Wing at San Teepee Air Base and resulted in the crash of an Intercontinental Sea Dragon Attack Balloon when it ingested a bar of used Ivory Soap from the waste duimp.

Answer 3

On Skylab, astronauts would step inside a ring on the floor and raise a fireproof beta cloth curtain on a hoop and attach it to the ceiling. A flexible hose with push-button shower nozzle could spray 2.8 liters of water from the personal hygiene tank during each bath. Used water would be vacuumed from the shower enclosure into a disposable bag and deposited in the waste tank.

On ISS, astronauts step into a cylindrical shower stall, and close the door. Then they get themselves wet and wash up just like you would on Earth, however, because of weightlessness, the water droplets and soap don’t flow downwards into a drain, they float about! Astronauts use a suction device to get rid of the waste water.

On the shuttle, the best they can do is wipe off with a damp towel.

Answer 4

Skylab had a shower, which seemed to require an astronaut to stand in a tube, while he used a water hose and a vacuum hose for rinsing (got to the link below and scroll down to the fifth picture).

As for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, I assume that they use sponge baths, but I am not sure.

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...Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, poses after a hot bath in the shower facility in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop...

Answer 5

They take "meteor showers !"

Answer 6

gee let me think um yeaaaaaaaa, see they have rooms that actually have gravity and they shower regularly in them.

Answer 7

They don't.