How do the astronauts breathe in space?
ANSWER from Karina Shook on November 9, 1998: When they’re inside the space shuttle, it’s just like being here on Earth – there is air inside made up of Oxygen and Nitrogen that comes from tanks carried on the shuttle. When the astronauts go outside the shuttle in their spacesuits, they breathe pure oxygen from tanks in the backpack of their spacesuit. Return to top.
