“Today I broke out a new pair of pants; not too bad after 2 months. I could definitely have made it for the duration, but when we do that we contribute to the stowage issues. We have an overabundance of cargo pants and shorts.”

“Two weeks here and just now beginning to sense that I smell bad. Or maybe it’s me and my crewmates. But on weekends we can throw away some old clothes, scrub ourselves down well after the workouts, and put on brand new clothes.”

“I want to clean up the eating area – new straps for the table, new Velcro, maybe even scrub some of the stains out of the fabric lockers. There are just odds and ends everywhere, and I would like to make it a little bit more orderly.”

“It amazes me that 150ml of hot water on a hygiene towel can bring me such joy and satisfaction up here. We get one every other day. Hygiene towel days, as we call them, are very nice days!”

"The toilet is very noisy and is probably damaging our hearing.”

Water is a valuable resource, and so wet things are left out to air dry. A water conduction collection unit then removes moisture out of the air to purify and recycle. The crew jokes that they're all very close, given they drink each others' sweat.

Given the lack of running water, the crew has had to 'improvise' elements of hygiene - using wet wipes and towels, needing to swallow toothpaste after brushing, wearing a water bag over your head to wash hair.