Do you know? Behind the glamorous appearance, astronauts have experienced these embarrassing things

When talking about astronauts, people will think of them going to the dangerous space alone, breaking through human limits one by one, completing a series of mysterious and magnificent tasks, and constantly refreshing human cognition of space. However, apart from these magnificent space missions, the lives of astronauts are actually full of various unknown embarrassing things, which are particularly interesting. Let's take a look at them today.

It's all coffee's fault

In the early days of the space age, every feeling reported by astronauts would attract great attention from scientists, because they would likely become important research clues. However, not every feeling is worth studying, and some oolong incidents are inevitable, the most typical of which is the space headache incident.

At that time, some astronauts reported experiencing mysterious headaches in space. In order to maximize the safety of astronauts in space, people invested a lot of resources in research.

Is it a change in intracranial pressure? Or a lack of oxygen in the cabin? None of them. The final answer is: caffeine withdrawal symptoms. These astronauts usually like to drink coffee, and they did not forget it even in space. However, these coffees were cooled and dried before being sent into space. This process greatly reduced the caffeine content in the coffee. Therefore, these scary headaches are actually just symptoms of caffeine withdrawal.

Chaos Maker

In order to facilitate the astronauts to move freely in the cabin, there are handrails throughout the International Space Station for astronauts to use for support. However, it is not easy for a novice astronaut to use these handrails gracefully to swim in mid-air. They often need to spend a certain amount of time and energy to learn and adapt, and sometimes it will cause confusion.

One astronaut said that when he tried to fly from one module to another for the first time, he caused a mess because of his over-aggressive movements: behind him, a bunch of scientific research equipment that was not adequately fixed all floated up and "flew freely" in the air, which scared him into a cold sweat. "When you first arrive, you are like a bull in a china shop, clumsy and awkward," he said.

Happy Moon Face

With the advent of the space economy era, space travel is getting closer and closer to us. However, in the early days of space travel, it may not be very friendly to people with high appearance and love of selfies.

The weightless environment will disrupt the uniformity of blood circulation in the body, causing the blood pressure in the head to exceed the standard. In the first few hours of arriving in space, your face will become what astronauts call "moon face", and it is estimated that the selfie at this time will hardly exist in the camera for more than one second.

Midnight Horror

Human exploration of space is always accompanied by various shocks, including not only external shocks, but also self-scare. When astronauts first enter space, they have not yet fully adapted to the series of abnormal phenomena brought about by weightlessness. For example, when you fall asleep, as your body relaxes, your arms will float up instead of staying at the sides of your body.

Astronaut Vance Brand foolishly forgot about this and got a fright. While the other astronauts chose to strap themselves into their sleeping bags, Brand chose to just clip himself to the armrests and sleep. Waking up in the middle of the night, Brand was horrified to see something floating in front of him—yes, it was his own hands.