Ask Astronaut Greg Chamitoff: In Your Dreams

[phrozen17]

they should get high in space... they probably already do

[senSedative112]

drugs in space...

[Ledamonster]

Ever wonder why you sleep facing the same direction or on the same side of your bed... in space they don't have space orientation to comfort them. I sleep comfortably feet pointing west. The nights I sleep feet pointing east, I have vivid dreams... Try it! ( : Peoples fluids are all slightly different. I think when you disorientate the metallic properties in your system by shifting their magnetism your body has to catch up.

[DrakkenWasHere]

Actually, this is for anyone to answer...But how does space affect the nerves system? For example: Pain. Does things hurt less? And if gravity takes the stress off of the muscles, what does it do to the nerves?

Thank you.

Lemel Takk

Cincinnati, OH

[beatboy001]

You are on a long and difficult road...

[SaintofKillers66]

How does a zero gee environment affect one's erections in teh penile zone?

sonya, balls state

[dalsgaard12]

Actually I heard somewhere that erections are really common in space, and pretty easy to get because the blood-flow is'nt hindered by gravity.

Some of the male astronauts have even confirmed this.

[Ledamonster]

@dalsgaard12 thats pretty funny ( :

[webuildfire]

I'd like to see what it looks like out the window... Could you move the camera? It must be really nice...

[oblivinater]

Hi greg..

It looks really hot on the space station

is it hot or cold?

Ian

Ireland

[kristal661]

um ya ian its both it depends

[divahoney2001]

Hi!!!! , i will like to now for what is that computer in you back? thanks

[noonesaz]

If by some accident a spacewalker got lost in space would he/she remain ina state of suspended animation or would the human body decay inside the suit?

[Achlysis]

they would just stay still until they died of starvation or whatever. they wouldnt be able to move because according to newton every reaction needs an equal and opposite reaction and since space has no gravity it is impossible for someone to move like on earth unless they threw something they were holding. so basically they would just float along with the rapidly expanding universe until they died of natural causes.

[flappingscapular]

Hi Greg,

When you look at the Earth from space, do you see color or is it black and white because of the absence of oxygen?

Thanks!

Spencer St John

Tampa, Florida

[bighairyfrog]

Ok, straight up, do you masturbate in space or is it too much of a mess? Or do you get little bags for that sort of thing?

[jtimo3]

great question

[dexter2433]

my ? would be do you dream with or with out gravity and that may be the reasen for fealing out of wack when you wake up if your dream was of being on earth with gravity

[RioUchiha]

Dis you ever see a UFO???

[mtndewjh]

What does it smell like. There must be sanitation filters in the air system but does it get stale like the air on a long flight. I bet you miss the fresh air.

-JJ, Singapore

[csabicsekkerqazwsx]

Is it possible to multiply in the space by sexual intercourse?

[Gam3Junkie]

Impressive..

[ledvexxa]

KEWL!

[yourrainebow]

Very cool! I have a difficult time sleeping and dreaming here, on Earth. I would love to try sleeping & dreaming in zero gravity.

Peace~

[SDBOY08]

Hey Greg,

How cool it must be to be amongst the stars. I have had very little experience with zero-g in single engine aircraft, and it's the coolest feeling in the world for just those few seconds, how about you and how is it none stop? do you get sick, nausea, faint, anything like that. Also can you describe the shuttle experience lift off/ and returning to earth. I have always wandered what it was like, i would think it would the ride of my life. Thanks

Matt from Rapid City, SD

[jeffsadowski]

Rrrr I'm extremely jealous now. Zero G sleeping sounds awesome. I would love sleeping in zero G.

[sminkles45]

seen aliens mr astronaut?

[anmoose]

Fascinating to think that you're sleeping literally hanging on a wall, and you wake up instinctively thinking you're looking at a ceiling, even though it's another wall. But then, up and down only exist because of how and where you hang your pictures. LOL

[XxnesiexX]

LOL

well they could be mounted verticly

[CaucasianHonour]

lol I now realise I have to ask somewhere els

[CaucasianHonour]

WOOHOO cool I always wanted to be an astronaut! The closes thing I got is watching star trek and battlestar :( Anyways please be honest have you seen any strange things like UFO??? Also do you guys sit around talk philosophies about existence and such? Have you come to some new conclusions? I bet you could get really high in space :D Also has anyone ever had sex in space? I bet that would be awsome! (or frustrating lol)

And btw are you originally Russian ? Cause of your last name.

[XxnesiexX]

hes american the other two on board with him are russian

[woodbulb]

Of all the questions we could ask, we asked that? haha

[XxnesiexX]

of all the questions in this earth we had to ask that one

hey wait he not on earth ok all the question in the galaxy

[splittybabe]

Does Homer Simpson has a plan to be an astronaut

again ?

Thank you !

[XxnesiexX]

ok wasn't really wondering but still good info,

in my dreams im in space and floating around in zero-G

maybe one day my dreams will come true(sigh)well at least for now i have my dreams and im happy there

~nessie

[santan25]

Bet its nice and silent

[tobitege]

Unfortunately it won't be silent as the air conditioning is always running to assure air flow.

[santan25]

yes well, that just becomes background noise, and not so bothering.

[XxnesiexX]

sometimes the astronauts come back defened temperarally

[santan25]

Then I am mistaken ^^

[XxnesiexX]

they just cut it out hes probally talking louder than usal but he dosen't realise

[Arghira]

why he is have a wach?

[Elendil963]

Because when he communicates with earth he has to know the time... Oh and maybe it's not a watch.

[XxnesiexX]

it is a watch and other stuff

[XxnesiexX]

to tel the time and it also measures stuff like light and heat