Hadfield jams out in the ISS
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Sounds a lot like a plane, doesn't it? That's what hit me first, followed up by an even more intense realization: For as much as we envision how bad ass being in the ISS would be, the truth is you're whipping around the Earth in zero g, totally isolated from the rest of the world, and stuck in a cramped space with bright fluorescent lights and a constant humming of life-support systems to remind you that you're not in an environment you could survive in on your own. Not to get all dark on you or anything, as I'd spend time in the ISS in a heartbeat. But it goes to show that when our best images of life in a space ship are the occasional happy videos sent from smiling astronauts and the roomy futuristic space-yachts in sci-fi movies, the reality is that being stationed on the ISS is probably most similar to trying to live on a flying, zero-g plane. At least you'd get that sweet ice cream though.