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to wear suction cup shoes, or magnetic shoes, so that we could walk in the shuttle like we do on Earth, but that turns out to be a bad idea--not only does it take away the fun of floating, but since it restricts the astronaut to the floor it negates much of the available space in the already small shuttle. There are "footloops" all around the floor that we can slide our feet into to stabilize ourselves, and float out of when we're ready to move on. 

It's amazing how quickly an astronaut becomes adept at moving and working in weightlessness--after only a couple of days it's second nature. All the techniques that I learned during my first flight came right back to me on my second flight--just like riding a bicycle.

Once we've solved the problem of stabilizing ourselves we're ready to tackle the problems of stabilizing everything else. Everything floats--and during the first part of the flight it seems like everything is floating away. Astronauts lose pencils, cookies, cooks, food trays, everything. The cracks and crevices that we don't even notice on Earth seem to swallow things up. We eventually discovered that things are drawn to certain places by pattern of the air flow: lost articles would reappear behind the TV monitors or near the bathroom fans. Occasionally screws, bolts or tools that had been lost by work crews on the ground would mysteriously drift out of their hiding places.