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Space Craziness with Astronaut Chris Hadfield

There’s no crying in space.

I am going to miss the amazing videos from Commander Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who streamed his odd missives from the International Space Station with an earthiness that was both hilarious and informative.

Many of his videos are practical demonstrations about the reality of our physical bodies meeting a gravity-free environment like space. Watching these videos will change your perspective of gravity.

Hadfield’s experiments create a visceral understanding of the fact that everything we do from moving to eating and everything we experience around us is in a complex dance with gravity. Our very existence depends on gravity.

What better way to show it than to wring out a wash cloth in space?

Hadfield demonstrates crying in space:

Chris carries out student experiment by wringing out a wash cloth in space then waxes philosphical:

Chris talks about “space vision” and testing eyeballs in space:

 

Hadfield talks to William Shatner AKA Captain James T. Kirk:

Amy Eyrie

I'm a novelist and writer of strange and unusual subjects, from Quantum Physics to the dark ruminations of the soul. With a B.A. in creative writing/poetry and a minor in astrophysics, I’ve worked as a journalist, writer and editor in both the U.S. and Europe.

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