Hair-raising routine

Hair-raising routine

How do astronauts wash their hair while in zero gravity?

One way is to squirt water onto the scalp, as demonstrated by Nasa astronaut Karen Nyberg in a Nasa video released last Friday.

The 43-year-old American mechanical engineer and mother of one, part of Expedition 36 aboard the International Space Station, is the 50th woman to venture into space.

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