So what about a photograph of someone doing the laundry. The thought brings to my mind the image of someone beating the dirt out of clothes with a rock in a river, ever wary of crocodiles, I guess. Or it brings to mind a street scene with colorful laundry billowing in the breeze across clotheslines. Well today we have neither. Instead we have this intriguing image by Alexander Zemlianichenko of the AP showing an employee at the the Russian space training center air drying on a clothes line the spacesuits of cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineers Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi after a training session. Those babies do not look like beach wear to be sure!  And it really isn’t the high tech solution to the problem that one might expect. Is it?

But to the significant point that like everyone else, astronauts certainly have laundry too. No beating your space suit on a meteorite or stray piece of space debris for them. Indeed, it has always struck me that to hang out on the International Space Station you need to be able to set aside any OCD tendencies towards super cleanliness that you might harbour. Of course, the views are amazing!