Space Hygiene

Failure To Launch

This episode, Quinn, Chris, and Other Chris talk about the history of Space Hygiene and the worst space mission that everyone survived. Topics covered include:

• The Soviet and American test subjects who didn't bathe for science
• The Gemini 7 astronauts who stewed in their spacesuits for two weeks
• The Salyut cosmonauts who almost drowned using the first space shower

Sources:

1. Packing For Mars, Mary Roach
2. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/mission_trans/gemini7.htm