First Russian woman in International Space Station mission

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Russia has sent a woman into space for the first time in 17 years as part of a joint US-Russian mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Yelena Serova and two male colleagues, an American and a Russian, docked with the ISS six hours after blasting off from Kazakhstan in a Soyuz spacecraft.

Ms Serova is only the fourth female Russian cosmonaut to enter space, and is the first to fly to the ISS.

The 38-year-old engineer has spent seven years training for the role.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29372277

[jakeXT]

1. The good old hair question

Female cosmonaut bats back questions about hair and parenting

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Serova has been barraged with questions focusing on her gender and how she will manage to bond with her 11-year-old daughter while she is away. She even offered to give a demonstration of washing her hair in space.

But her patience appeared to run out at a pre-launch press conference in Baikonur on Wednesday when a journalist asked her to comment again on how she would look after her hair aboard the International Space Station and whether she would keep her current style.

“Can I ask a question, too: aren’t you interested in the hair styles of my colleagues?” she said at the televised news conference, flanked by the male astronauts who will accompany her.

She stressed: “My flight is my job. I feel a huge responsibility towards the people who taught and trained us and I want to tell them: we won’t let you down!”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/female-cosmonaut-russia-yelena-serova-press-questions-hair-parenting

[Blue_Tires]

4. Wait a minute -- How does the water actually stick to the hair?

I thought liquids could only be turned into smaller and smaller 'spheres'?

[jakeXT]

5. Water can be both, adhesive and cohesive

Cohesion: Water is attracted to water
Adhesion: Water is attracted to other substances

[YarnAddict]

2. I think I need to get my eyes checked

I read the headline as "First Russian woman in International Space Station missing," and I wondered where she could have gone, where they would have buried the body, who the suspects were . . .

[snooper2]

3. That is exactly how I read it :)

I thought she was on planet Earth but missing-