13. Would the beds be comfortable or wouldn't we have any regular beds in space? Are the beds different? (A K2S Question)

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Could we jump on the beds? Would we have blankets, pillows, sleeping bags or hammocks? Would we have to be zipped in or tethered or tied to something?

In weightless conditions, there is no need to sleep horizontally. Beds may be placed vertically on a wall to save usable floor space in a private quarter. The bed could look like a sleeping bag, with thick comfortable padding underneath and a zipped cover as your blanket. In order to sleep well, some astronauts have found that they need to feel the pressure of the covers on them, and feel that their heads are on the pillow, so we will provide flexible restraining belts on the body and head to simulate this. On the Moon or Mars, there will be some gravity (one-sixth g and one-third g, respectively). So people will need to sleep horizontally. If you wish to jump on the bed, just be careful not to hit your head on the ceiling!

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Answer provided by Robert T. Bigelow

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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