Water on the ISS has good taste.
Space mission, which was attended by Spades, it was called Principia and lasted six months. According to the astronaut before takeoff spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Board and listened to Queen, Coldplay and U2 as well as the song the Final Countdown the rock band Europe. Peak also said that the water on the ISS has good taste, despite the fact that it is obtained from recycled urine.
The astronaut said that prolonged exposure to space station much “sostarivayut” the cardiovascular system, reduces bone density, accelerates aging of the skin, impair your vision and relaxes muscles. However, a month after returning to Earth the body is almost completely restored. Peak believes that a person’s ability to resist the effects of weightlessness will help future researchers to carry out a flight to Mars.
Timothy Peake is currently the only British astronaut and first Briton, who stepped into open space. His participation in the expedition started on 15 December 2015 the crew of “Soyuz TMA-19M” together with Yury Malenchenko (Russia) and Timothy Kopra (USA). The return to Earth took place on 18 June 2016.
