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Supplies aren't an issue - they send up more every couple of months, and just did so a week or two ago.

There is a slight inconvenience in that the ISS has 6 bedrooms and 7 astronauts, so now one of them will be sleeping on the couch for 8 months rather than 8 days.

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> sleeping on the couch for 8 months rather than 8 days.

Wonder what that actually translates to, in space

Is there an extra "guest" specially-adapted "zero gravity sleeping bag" or such?

All I read was that the "couch" is a sleeping bag in the Japanese module. I think the real sleeping quarters provide privacy as well as strapping down the occupant as some semblance of gravity.

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