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AN AVERAGE DAY IN SPACE

07:00

BREAKFAST

Astronauts have several breakfast menus to choose from, much like a hotel buffet breakfast. If they want cereal, they have to add dried milk and water rather than fresh milk.

BREAKFAST MENU

French toast

Canadian bacon

Orange juice

Coffee

06:00

WAKE-UP CALL

As the ISS completes a full orbit of Earth in just 90 minutes, it never spends very long in a particular time zone. By convention, astronauts use what we call Greenwich Mean Time, also referred

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