But without the plutonium-coated fangs.
Solar powered spaceship
The ISS draws all of its power from its arrays of solar cells.
Even at their best, the cells are only about 14 per cent efficient at turning sunlight into electricity.
A bank of nickel-hydrogen batteries store electrical energy for use during the night.
Transmissions with ground-control centres include audio, video and data, while system and experimental data flow freely.
Surprisingly, there’s even room on board the ISS for an old-fashioned ham radio set.
The slightest navigational error could cause havoc with its heat regulation, microgravity, communications and solar power collection.
It’s just on the other side of the road!)
The lucky spacemen don’t even have to miss out on the latest cinema releases.
Former Station astronaut Greg Chamitoff apparently viewed the entireStar Trekseries as a regular weekly event.
When not donning rubber ears and ogling Uhuru, ISS astronauts are getting busy with theirdigital cameras.
The European Space Agency has been testing a head-mounted computer system called Wearable Augmented Reality (WEAR).
Those lowly IBM ThinkPads simply haven’t got the processing grunt to cope with WEAR’s real-time 3D graphics.
But what do you expect with IT?
