How the Artemis Astronauts Plan to Live in Space for 10 Days

“Did y’all really get dibs on spots?” “She thinks.” “I know.” “Shotgun.” “Yeah, I basically called shotgun.” “We’re thinking maybe one of the sleeping bags will be kind of laid out, like, around this bend right here. So somebody’s going to have a head maybe over here, and then the feet all the way down there by the ECLSS wall.” “And Dre, don’t forget that I’ve already claimed the tunnel here. Except you’re not supposed to sleep with your head in there because of carbon dioxide. So I’m going to be hanging like a bat, is my plan. But I won’t even know it because there’s no gravity.” “Here, we’ve got both the toilet area and the exercise device on Orion. So this is the flywheel exercise device. We’ll start here. The toilet is right below it. So underneath me right now is the hygiene bay. And then it kind of looks like a rower. So you have a strap here and a hand-held bar or a harness, depending on what type of exercise you’re doing, and the way you use it is actually in this direction. So this is one of the things that we have to think in a 0g environment for, that the person who’s exercising on this will have their head coming up in the direction of the docking tunnel. And if you’re a really tall person — let’s say, the largest Canadian that we have — and you’re assigned to this mission, your head is going to extend all the way toward the docking hatch.” “That space is going to feel bigger on orbit when we’re floating. And then going up to the, again, the forward portion is what’s up now. But going forward and looking down to the deck, while this may be an awkward space to talk about here on Earth, where we have the normal pull of gravity, when we get into weightlessness, those two walls are going to be spaces that we work in, and that we use more than we do here when we’re on Earth.”