Space Station Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space!
Peter Pizagalli
Published
11/12/2014
NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman -- along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst -- explored the phenomenon of water-surface tension in microgravity on the International Space Station. That's a fancy way of saying they had some fun with a GoPro and a blob of water.long version
During Expedition 40 in the summer of 2014, NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman — along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst — explored the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity on the International Space Station. The crew "submerged" a sealed GoPro camera into a floating ball of water the size of a softball and recorded the activity with a 3-D camera.
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