ISS astronauts playing in space

Some astronauts on board the International Space Station, which is at an altitude of approximately 350 kilometers above the surface of the Earth, conduct a series of experiments suggested by the public.

The tests are supposedly meant to examine the effects of microgravity, but at the same time it gave Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata the chance to try flying on a “Flying Carpet”.

Several more tests included the effects of water in different types of motion and pressure, like shooting water out of a straw and a syringe to see how it flows in the space.