Bad food, broken toilets and a shrink on call: Astronaut reveals what it’s like to be ‘stuck in space’

In space, no one can hear you scream. But there’s always a shrink on call, back on Earth, to listen to stressed-out astronauts cry if they need to. “I could bitch at him, cry with him, whatever,” said retired astronaut Clayton “AstroClay” Anderson of the long-distance psychologist who helped him when he spent 152 days aboard the International Space Station in 2007. “He had my back. He could try to effect change [with NASA] and talk to my family if need be.” NASA’s Earth-bound shrinks might be busy right now,...