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VIRAL: Astronaut rings out wet washcloth

Posted at 7:02 PM, Apr 22, 2013
and last updated 2013-04-23 06:54:38-04

(WTVR) - Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield performed a simple science experiment designed by two tenth-grade 10 students from Nova Scotia.

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The two wanted to know what would happen to water when it is wrung out of a wet washcloth in zero-gravity. Hadfield demonstrated for them from the International Space Station. (Love how his microphone just floats in front of him.)