By Peter Weiss
It’s well known that water behaves differently in the near-zero gravity of a spacecraft than on Earth. Yet scientist-astronaut Donald R. Pettit, now aboard the International Space Station, was startled recently when he watched this most familiar of liquids stretch across a large metal hoop.
The odd behavior showed up just as Pettit was about to do some just-for-fun experiments with soap bubbles in his off-duty hours.