According to our astronauts, burping is much more – hazardous – in microgravity than here on Earth. After all, gravity isn’t there to help keep the liquid on the “bottom”. It never ocurred to me why they don’t have carbonated beverages on space flights.
Also, you can see “shooting stars” from the shuttle, but they are BELOW you.
Interesting to hear that it takes about 3 days or so to readjust to full gravity, even after a mission as short as the shuttle flights.
By the way, the astronauts say you CAN see plenty of stars in space, but they don’t twinkle due to the lack of atmosphere, and you can see much more color.
Nothing else for it – astronauts are almost all great communicators, and very cool folks!
Sorry about any typos on these live posts – I was typing them on my tiny ipod touch keyboard.