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.
SPACEY WATER. Vigorously shaken, a water film aboard the International Space Station sheds a droplet without breaking.
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