How would you like to live three hundred and sixty kilometers ____ the Earth, flying at almost thirty thousand kilometres an hour through dark, ____ space? Well, that's exactly how the astronauts working on the ____ International Space Station (ISS) live. 'Cool!' you ____ say. Well... maybe. Let's take a ____ at what it's really like to live in space. Living in zero gravity means doing lots of things ____. First of all, you can forget about having a nice hot shower in the morning, as the water droplets would simply ____ away. Astronauts have to use a vacuum hose to ____ with. Also, when muscles don't have to work against ____ as they do here on Earth, they go soft. So the residents of the ISS actually spend 2 hours a day ____ out on exercise bikes and rowing machines. There's no ____ from household chores on the ISS. As dangerous bacteria grow quickly in zero ____, the astronauts clean the whole station every day, which is about the size of a football ____ Also the lack of gravity makes the simplest things in life seem quite ____ Take eating for example, to stop their ____ floating away, astronauts have to 'post' food packages into a special tray and then strap the tray to their legs. At least there's no washing up to do, though. The astronauts simply put their ____ dishes and rubbish into plastic bags and send them back to Earth. When it comes to sleeping, there's no ____ for a bedroom! The astronauts could sleep anywhere, but they can't risk ____ into any computer controls so they strap themselves into a sleeping ____ on the wall. It's a truly relaxing experience, as nothing presses against the skin. It's important to ____ your eyes, however, to block out the light of the sun as the sun ____ and sets every 45 minutes when you are orbiting the Earth. So, when astronauts aren't doing ____ or chores or repairing equipment, do they get any ____ time? Well, a little! They often ____ emails back home, read books or watch movies, but most of all they like to ____ out of the window and take pictures of their ____ home, Earth!

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