Astronauts have shown how the spinner behaves in space
A Life / / December 19, 2019
NASA astronauts have checked as a toy trend in 2017 will behave in microgravity, and posted a video with the test results.
On the official YouTube-channel Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center published the record on which the astronauts twist spinner at the International Space Station.
Toy with Aeronautics and Space Administration National Office logo was taken to include parcels space truck "Progress".
In the video, the spinner rotates and shakes under the dome of the review space station module with windows on the perimeter.
Then astronauts, holding toy, doing tricks with the rotation of their own. They are spinning in the air, somersault backwards and forwards, revolve around its axis.
Astronaut Randolph James Breznik wrote in Twitter: «Spinner in space? How long can he spin? I do not know, but it's a great excuse to experiment with Newton's laws. "
The channel Lyndon Johnson Space Center on behalf added that if the spinners allow float in microgravity the friction in the bearings will decrease, the central ring and the rest of the toys will be balanced, and all of it will spin as a whole.