1 Nearly every astronaut experiences some space sickness, caused by the wildly confusing information reaching their inner ears.
2 In weightlessness, fluids shift upward, causing nasal congestion and a puffy face; bones lose calcium, forming kidney stones; and muscles atrophy, slowing the bowels and shrinking the heart.
3 At least you’ll be puffy, constipated, and tall: The decreased pressure on thespine in zero-g causes most space travelers to grow about two inches.
4 Lab rats sent into space during midpregnancy, while their fetuses’ inner ears are developing, spawn some seriously tipsy babies (pdf).
5 No humans have yet been conceived in space, so we can only imagine.
6 So that’s what it takes: A 2001 study showed that astronauts who snored on Earth snoozed silently in space.
7 But astronauts sleep less soundly; 16 sunrises a day throws a major wrench into their circadian rhythms.
8 And Ziggy played guitar. At the start of the workday on the space shuttle, mission control in Houston broadcasts wake-up music, usually selected with a particular astronaut in mind.
9 If you are ever exposed to the vacuum of space without a suit on, don’t hold your breath: Sudden decompression would cause your lungs to rupture.
10 In addition, water on the tongue, in the nose, and in the eyes would boil away.
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