{"id":19504,"date":"2016-01-12T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T09:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-inspired-by-the-martian-tackles-real-life-mystery-how-to-sleep-in-space\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T09:52:50","slug":"video-inspired-by-the-martian-tackles-real-life-mystery-how-to-sleep-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-inspired-by-the-martian-tackles-real-life-mystery-how-to-sleep-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Video inspired by \u2018The Martian\u2019 tackles real-life mystery: How to sleep in space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do sleeping astronauts have to worry about being tied down in zero-G? (Credit: Fox \/ Armed Mind)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do you get your Z\u2019s in zero-G? Sleeping in space is one of the subjects tackled in a new video series from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment that capitalizes on the buzz generated by \u201cThe Martian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox\u2019s \u201cLife in Space\u201d series is aimed at stirring up interest in today\u2019s release of \u201cThe Martian\u201d on DVD and Blu-ray. And speaking of \u201cstirring,\u201d one of the key issues on the International Space Station has to do with getting sufficient shut-eye without floating into your crewmate\u2019s bunk.<\/p>\n

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel, a veteran of two space shuttle flights, handles the question in a 46-second clip. It turns out that the accommodations are cozier than you might think.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBIQsW-gu6g&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, we sleep in a fleece sleeping bag,\u201d Feustel says. \u201cThey\u2019re similar to what they are on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because the space station is a zero-G environment, you don\u2019t really need to lay out on a bed. Anyplace will do, but most astronauts prefer to sack out vertically in their closet-sized crew quarters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key is to actually attach yourself to something,\u201d Feustel says. \u201cOtherwise you\u2019re going to be bumping into your crew members at night when you\u2019re sleeping \u2013 and you really don\u2019t want to startle anybody in the middle of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why bungee cords are among the essentials for a comfortable stay on the space station.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tixMImZfxV4<\/p>\n

Sleep is a serious subject for spaceflight: In a 2014 study published by The Lancet Neurology, researchers found that sleep deprivation is pervasive on the space station.<\/p>\n

That may be due to the fact that the sun rises and sets 16 times in the course of a day, or that microgravity somehow interferes with the astronauts\u2019 sleep circuitry, or merely that life in space is stressful enough to keep you up at night.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the case, just imagine what Mark Watney and his crewmates went through during their Red Planet mission.<\/p>\n

The \u201cLife in Space\u201d videos were produced by Armed Mind in conjunction with Fox Home Entertainment with NASA\u2019s support and collaboration. Other videos in the series focus on shaving, exercising, relaxing and using the bathroom in zero gravity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do sleeping astronauts have to worry about being tied down in zero-G? (Credit: Fox \/ Armed Mind) How do you get your Z\u2019s in zero-G? Sleeping in space is one of the subjects tackled in a new video series from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment that capitalizes on the buzz generated by \u201cThe Martian.\u201d Fox\u2019s \u201cLife in Space\u201d series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[717,367,21,3963],"class_list":["post-19504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-mars","tag-space","tag-the-martian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}