NASA can’t decide whether astronauts should wash their underwear

Astronauts wearing matching t-shirts on the ISS in 2019

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NASA and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have signed an agreement to develop the first detergent for washing clothes in space – despite a long-standing recommendation against astronauts doing their own laundry.

While astronauts wear spacesuits when working outside the International Space Station (ISS), most of the time they wear ordinary clothes. Once too dirty to be worn, these are then either returned to Earth as rubbish or ejected along with other waste in a capsule to burn up in the atmosphere.

Under the new Space Act Agreement, which was signed …

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