Astronauts Live in Space

In space everything floats and there is no up or down. Astronauts wear special shoes that clip into grids on the floors and walls to stay in one place and work or eat. They do not need chairs to sit down and their beds are just sleeping bags fixed to the walls. They seem to sleep standing up.

Russian and American astronauts have lived in space because human bodies are suited to life on the earth held down by the force of gravity. The atmosphere process down the bodies provide humans air to breathe and protect them from the earth away from astronaut were found deed, when they returned from Salyut I space station in Soyuz II after spending 23 days in the orbit. The Skylab astronauts grew taller in space, but they returned back to the earth and suffered no lasting ill – effects.