How do the outfits the astronauts wear feel?
Astronaut clothing is generally no different from outfits you wear on the ground, except that in their selection we have to observe special criteria of comfort and safety peculiar to life onboard a space vehicle. For example, they have to be made from fire retardant material. When you wear them in microgravity, you are actually “floating” inside you clothing, so you feel “dressed” only when and where it touches your skin. • Is it fun to float in space? Astronauts and cosmonauts all agree that floating in space indeed is great fun, after you have adjusted to the new environment of microgravity. And by the way, scientists do not like to call it zero- gravity because unless you are exactly at the center-of-gravity of the spacecraft going around Earth in “free fall”, there are always unavoidable forces, from tiny accelerations and tidal effects acting on you even if they are extremely small, on the order of one millionth of Earth’s gravity. That’s why we use the expression microgravity. Wh
