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Jasmin Moghbeli—NASA astronaut, aerospace engineer and test pilot—has met one of her greatest challenges: hair care in space. Astronauts can spend months on the International Space Station. Living in microgravity is a much different experience than living on Earth. Something as seemingly simple as combing your hair becomes a more complex process. It shows how the small tasks of daily living become magnified in a space environment.
Moghbeli posed for a photo with the broken brush as her hair swept upward behind her. “Between all the floating particles that get caught in my hair, the Velcro that my hair gets caught in, and the ease with which my free-flying locks get tangled, hair management up here has been harder than I expected,” she wrote. This has been Moghbeli’s first visit to the ISS.
There are good reasons why hair is tough to manage in space. In microgravity, water tends to collect in spheres and float around, so astronauts can’t just hop into a shower to scrub their locks. “Astronauts wash their hair with a ‘rinseless’ shampoo that was originally developed for hospital patients who were unable to take a shower,”in an explainer. Astronaut Karen Nyberg gave a 2013 demonstration of how to wash hair in space using a small amount of water, shampoo and a robust comb.
Moghbeli previously shared what it’s like to to cut hair on the ISS with a time-lapse video of her trimming Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa’s hair. “Up here on the space station, we are the scientists, maintenance crew, medical staff, entertainment, hair stylists, and more,” the NASA astronaut tweeted.
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