Being up on the International Space Station isn’t all work (although the scientific experiments they’ve run are pretty cool!). There’s some time to play around, too, as you can see in this video of NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst popping a sealed GoPro camera into a bubble of water. Technically, what they’re doing is “explor[ing] the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity,” but it just looks like a lot of fun to us.
Astronauts also filmed the action in 3D as part of an initiative to show people back on Earth a more realistic view of what it’s like to live and work in the ISS (you’ll need red-blue stereoscopic 3D vision glasses to watch these videos). The 3D camera was sent up with the crew of STS-351 in 2011 to document the last flight of the space shuttle and has been in orbit since then.
via Mental Floss
November 6, 2014
