The U.S. segment of the station has a shower cabin that was delivered by the Endeavor shuttle in 2008.

"There are wipes and towels onboard instead of a shower. It is not so easy to do without it for six months. Besides, it turned out that the towels we wipe ourselves with are not only damp, but also cold.

"Even if they are heated up a bit, they cool down very quickly," said Oleg Kotov, who recently returned from the orbiting platform.

Kotov's colleague, Alexei Lazutkin, said he had not faced a similar problem in the Russian Mir space station. Unlike the Russian ISS section, Mir was equipped with a shower booth, he said.

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