Short answer People are tallest in the morning and a little shorter by the afternoon. In space, they get about 2.5 cm taller.
Your height in the morning and your height in the evening aren't the same.
Come on, your height changes in a single day?
One study measured the height of 100 children. Compared to when they woke up, they were about 1.5 cm shorter on average between 4 and 5 PM.
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Standing and sitting under gravity all day squishes your body down just a tiny bit.
So what about space, where there's almost no gravity? Within a month, the skeleton stretches out, and you get about 2.5 cm taller.
If I wanna be taller, I'm going to space
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- NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins wraps up her shift inside the International Space Station (iss075e0189660).jpg, NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain (source)
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