23. Is it dark and dreary in space? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

It is all a matter of your attitude. All astronauts look forward to being in space as often as they can even though it may mean spending some time away from their family and friends and missing simple things like eating fresh fruits or smelling freshly-cut grass! On the Space Station and on the Space Shuttle, astronauts are part of the experiment. They are enabling us to see how well humans can adapt to the very different environment of space. So astronauts really do look forward to going into space—they have a good attitude—but carefully plan to make their stay more pleasant by bringing food items that they enjoy eating, tapes of music or movies to help them relax during their off-hours, or training or doing very important jobs in space that no one else has done before so that we can learn more about living in space. In their off-hours, the Space Shuttle's lights are darkened to allow astronauts to witness spectacular views of the blue Earth below, where they sometimes get to see meteor falls and spectacular flashes of light from electrical storms on the night side of the Earth.

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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski

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

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