A look into the daily lives of astronauts in space

Blastoff!

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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off with a crew of seven astronauts in November 2002 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Staying healthy

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Space life can be fun too! Aboard the ISS, Scott Kelly plays around with the newest supply of fresh fruit that just arrived aboard a cargo ship.

Drifting

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Living in space makes for some pretty cool photo ops, like this one of NASA's Carl Meade floating untethered and Mark Lee hanging from the Space Shuttle Discovery's robot arm.

Northern Lights

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One of the best things about being in space is getting to absorb the surrounding view. Here, incredibly colorful Northern Lights are spotted just above Canada in 2016.

Preparing for deliveries

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December 2015: Scott Kelly performs a spacewalk during which he and flight engineer Tim Kopra moved the ISS's mobile transporter rail car so that a Russian cargo supply spaceship could deck.

Spacewalk

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In this picture taken in June 1965, astronaut Ed White is seen floating in space, with the Earth in the background, during the first US spacewalk.

Space music

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Canadian Space Agency astronaut and former commander of the ISS Chris Hadfield recorded a cover of David Bowie's hit 'Space Oddity' while in space. The 2013 video went viral and has since garnered over 40 million hits on YouTube.

Fish-eye effect

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Commander Hadfield smiles as he watches a water bubble float in the Unity node of the ISS.

Basic hygiene

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Zero gravity is not an excuse to not clean properly! Here Nyberg shows how she washes her hair in space.

Team work

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Dave Wolf (center) helps Tom Marshburn with the final touches on his extravehicular mobility unit spacesuit as he and Christopher Cassidy (right) get ready to begin their spacewalk on July 24, 2009.

Munchies

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Endeavour mission specialist Alvin Drew (right) and space teacher Barbara Morgan (left) show students at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education how astronauts eat peanut M&Ms in space.

Tragedy looming

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The devastating Hurricane Harvey that caused massive destruction in the southern United States can be seen from space off the coast of Texas.

Space tourist

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Private space explorer Anousheh Ansari while en route to the ISS in September 2006. Ansari was the fourth private space explorer but the first female to earn the title.

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