Earth and Space

Sleep suffocation

Stories from Physics for 11-14 14-16 IOP RESOURCES

Astronauts on the International Space Station must sleep by a ventilator. The microgravity on the spacecraft means exhaled carbon dioxide does not move away from a sleeping astronaut and, without air circulation, they could suffocate in a bubble of their own carbon dioxide.

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