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I’m actually serious lmao please answer I’m so curious. I have a vagine I just don’t know how it works in space I’ve never been there 😅
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I’m actually serious lmao please answer I’m so curious. I have a vagine I just don’t know how it works in space I’ve never been there 😅
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People are like you are the reason NASA thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for a week long mission.
Nope, astronauts don’t turn into shaken soda cans, gravity or not, the body’s got it handled! 😆🚀
That is the exact reason NASA invented ShopVacs in the sixties.
The body pushes it out
Yk how ppl get period cramps? The cramps are the uterus muscles contracting and pushing out the blood and uterine lining
Surface tension and capillary action help to keep menstrual blood contained, preventing it from floating around. Surprisingly in space the female reproductive system functions just like it does down on earth.
Period cramps are the body using muscle tension to push the uterine lining out. These cramps are necessary to push past the natural tendency of the cervix to remain closed and the general resistance of moving fluid through the human body. Gravity doesn’t play a major factor in this.
So if an astronaut uses a tampon, everything would work the same as on Earth.
It is likely that without a tampon or efforts to clean up, more of the expelled uterine lining would stick to the inside of the vulva, buttcrack, and to a lesser extent vagina due to adhesion in zero g. Whereas under gravity it would leak down a leg. In both cases this is obviously unsanitary so any astronaut or menstruating person on earth would just use a tampon or panty liner before it gets that far.
People pee and poop in space, no reason a woman can’t period. 🙂
Nope, your muscles will squish it out. While gravity helps, your uterus can contract on its own and push the blood and tissue away.
I think they use birth control to avoid having their periods on space