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Explain your daily routine thinking that you are in international space station.

The idea of a "day" on board a circling rocket is somewhat theoretical: at regular intervals, space explorers on board the ISS will encounter 15 day breaks as the station speeds far and wide. In any case, people have been adapted by a great many long periods of development to a 24-hour everyday cycle, thus called circadian rhythms of waking and dozing are hard-wired into our brains and bodies. So space traveler’s work and rest to settled timetables that match these antiquated rhythms. Some other plan would before long have teams living in a condition of perpetual jet lag.


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