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NASA’s latest engineering challenge: how to change a light bulb

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NASA is changing all of the light bulbs on board the International Space Station to help famously insomniac astronauts sleep better.

Astronaut insomnia is somewhat legendary at NASA, with astronauts popping sleep pills with regularity and averaging only six hours of sleep a night, far less than the eight and a half hours they’re technically allotted. This can cause serious problems as fatigue sets in. To help matters, NASA is embarking on a major mission to change all the light bulbs on the space station.
via Gizmodo

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