Comments on: What Happens to Your Underwear in Space?

By: Jockaira

Jockaira — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:55:45 +0000

I’ve seen panties labeled “Mon” “Tue” “Wed” etc.

Now I’ll be looking for “Jan” “Feb” “Mar” etc.

And then the really grotty ones labeled “Summer Vacation”

Note to Chris: If you hung your shorts outside in the vacuum to disinfect etc, the volatile components of the elasticizers would boil away…there’s nothing less sexy on a space station than baggy shorts with weightless bulges…kinda like space bloomers.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:57:12 +0000

I wonder how many dollars those underwears sell for

By: chris

chris — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:02:37 +0000

@jojo

Great, just what we need.

More space debris, astronauts with radioactive underwear, and inter-planetary super bacteria.

I kid, but I’m certain there is some reason why they don’t just hang out their underwear.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:24:53 +0000

Huh? I would think hanging the underwear outside for a few minutes would kill all the bacteria.