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What Is Life Like on the International Space Station? 🌟

Astronauts live on the International Space Station, a big laboratory that orbits Earth.

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Key Points

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The station circles Earth every 90 minutes.

Crew works and rests on a tight schedule.

Food is specially prepared for zero‑gravity.

Daily workouts prevent muscle loss.

Large windows called Cupola let them watch the planet.

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They sleep in sleeping bags attached to the wall so they don’t float away.

Meals come in sealed packets and are eaten with a straw or spoon.

To stay healthy, they exercise on a treadmill and a bike that are fixed to the floor.

From the Cupola window, they can see continents and oceans below.

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4 words

orbit

to travel around a planet in a circle

zero‑gravity

the feeling of weightlessness in space

Cupola

a round window area on the space station for looking outside

microgravity

very weak gravity that lets things float

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