Did you know that astronauts can’t cry in space because of the weightless environment. The tears just collect in little balls and sting your eyes.
In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel, in the midst of a seven-hour spacewalk, got something in his eye.
Feustel and fellow astronaut Mike Fincke had just finished running power cables from the U.S. side of the International Space Station to the Russian, and — at the EVA’s five-hour mark — some anti-fogging solution from the inside of Feustel’s helmet had begun to flake. One of those flakes, swirling in the modified snow globe that is a spacesuit helmet, ended up in precisely the place you wouldn’t want it to.
“Just as an FYI, my right eye is stinging like crazy right now,” the astronaut announced to his team. “It’s watering a lot. Must have gotten something in it.”
Fincke’s reply? “Sorry, buddy.”
Astronauts can't cry in space because of the weightless environment. The tears just collect in little balls and sting your eyes
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