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To: dragnet2

Just so we don’t think the ISS is poitless:

spacedaily.com

In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth.
Astronaut Takao Doi “threw a boomerang and saw it come back” during his free time on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said on Friday.

Doi threw the boomerang after a request from compatriot Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion.

“I was very surprised and moved to see that it flew the same way it does on Earth,” the Mainichi Shimbun daily quoted the 53-year-old astronaut as telling his wife in a chat from space.

The space agency said a videotape of the experiment would likely be released later.

Doi travelled on US shuttle Endeavour on the March 11 blast-off and successfully delivered the first piece of a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station.


All along I assumed gravity had something to do with this.


16 posted on 03/21/2008 4:29:49 PM PDT by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: RightWhale

lol...That’s intriguing.


18 posted on 03/21/2008 5:08:00 PM PDT by dragnet2
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