Living in Space

Life up here in space is very different from life down on Earth. The main difference is this: on Earth, things fall down to the ground , but up here, they don’t fall to the floor. Instead, they float in the air.
On Earth, we walk from one place to another, but up here we don’t walk normally. We float around inside the module. It’s like flying. We go straight ahead until we grab onto a handrail or we hit a wall. And sometimes we bump into objects. With practice, we learn how to control our movements. We push ourselves from object to object, or we move along and hold onto the things.
We don’t have a real kitchen aboard the spacecraft, but we do have a kitchen table. We can’t set things down on it, but we have bungee straps and Velcro on the tabletop, so our food containers, spoons, napkins, etc. don’t fly away. If the salt flies away, we have to go after it to pull it back. Of course, there are no chairs around the table. We float around the table while we prepare our meals and eat.