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[sejpdw]

In the following passage, I think "to get out of the air" should be corrected as " to get out of in the air. "What's your opinion?

"Astronauts must stay healthy to do a good job in space. Part of staying healthy is keeping clean. But how do astronauts wash themselves in space? Can they take showers? No, they can't. Because water is weightless in space, it just floats around. That's why astronauts take towel baths. They put soap on a towel and use it to wash. Then they put water on another towel and use it to rinse. To wash their hari they use a wet, rinselss shampoo. They try not to make soap bubbles becasue bubbles are difficult to get out of the air. Then they dry their hari whith a towel."

[CP]

It means that they would have a hard time getting bubbles out of the air inside the space capsule, because they would float around in zero gravity like everything else, and if they popped they would just float around as soapy water, not fall to the ground as on Earth. So the bubbles would be hard to get out of the air.
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