Take a ride on space station tour

Peggy Whitson demonstrates culinary etiquette in space.

(CNN) -- Want to see where astronauts sleep? Where they eat? How they wash their hair? Then come along for a tour of the international space station, hosted by one of the new residents.

After settling into her home more than 200 miles high, astronaut Peggy Whitson showed off her new digs in a video tour for CNN.

The NASA biochemist moved into the space station one month ago with two Russian housemates, cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev.

They could stay much longer than expected because of engine troubles with the space shuttle fleet. Whitson said she was prepared for the extended mission.

"Before we launched, even though our mission was originally supposed to last four and a half months, I assumed I would be at least six months," she told CNN's Space Correspondent Miles O'Brien in an interview that aired Wednesday.

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Whitson narrated a video tour of the sprawling modular complex, which consists of what appears to be several giant metal cans linked together like sausages, powered by huge solar-powered wings on the outside.

She invited the curious to take a peek out her window and in her sleeping chamber, a tiny closet complete with a computer and photos from home.

Along the way, Whitson bumped into crew mates as they shampooed their hair, worked out on treadmills and gathered around the dining room table, tapping water from nozzles in a nearby wall to re-hydrate plastic-covered chow.

Earth-bound viewers who want to find out where space travelers make phone calls, how they use maps or what they wear in the gym should watch this made-for-CNN video tour.