{"id":553011,"date":"2026-06-25T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/553011\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:47:11","slug":"astronaut-shows-how-to-vacuum-on-the-international-space-station-national-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/553011\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut shows how to vacuum on the International Space Station | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Astronaut<\/p>\n

European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot demonstrated how to do housekeeping on the International Space Station (ISS). (ESA\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n

By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n

An astronaut has shared their latest mission vacuuming a spacecraft 260 miles above Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot demonstrated on Wednesday, June 24, how to do housekeeping on the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS).<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old Frenchwoman revealed scenes that saw her appearing upside down in microgravity as she did the dusting.<\/p>\n

Sophie posted: “Being an astronaut on a space mission doesn’t exempt you from vacuuming or dusting! After the timelapse of tidying up the European Columbus laboratory published a few weeks ago, here’s another one that illustrates\u2026 housekeeping!”<\/p>\n

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The spacewoman explained that on board the ISS, special attention is paid to cleaning the ventilation grilles. (ESA\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n

By Talker<\/p>\n

The spacewoman explained that on board the ISS, special attention is paid to cleaning the ventilation grilles.<\/p>\n

She wrote: “Every system that sucks in air is equipped with filters that capture dust. It’s those that we clean with the vacuum cleaner<\/a> to keep the ventilation running optimally.<\/p>\n

“As a result, every Saturday, it’s dust cloth and vacuum cleaner! And I’m sure you’re asking the question: just like all activities, it’s the planners on the ground who schedule this task into our timetable.<\/p>\n

“So to all the kids reading me: being an astronaut also means having to put everything back in its place\u2026 and do the housekeeping on board your spacecraft!”<\/p>\n

Sophie and the rest of the Crew-12 mission arrived at the orbital platform on February 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot demonstrated how to do housekeeping on the International Space Station (ISS). (ESA\/NASA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[48418,18,19,17,133],"class_list":["post-553011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-dean-murray","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116809410030701788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}