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February 26, 2013

Popping water balloons in space

by Larra Morris

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shows what happens when water balloons are popped in the weightlessness of space. Pettit created this and many other science videos while aboard the International Space Station in 2011 and 2012.
via Laughing Squid

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