Japanese astronaut surfs on flying carpet (video)

Posted on Wednesday, May 20 2009 @ 16:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata demonstrated the difficulties of living in a zero-gravity environment. One of his videos involves a "flying carpet":

"I flew on this magic carpet by using adhesive tape so that the soles of my feet stayed on it," the 45-year-old astronaut revealed, speaking into a microphone during what appeared at times like a variety show.

The experiment was part of 16 offbeat tasks selected from ideas sent to the space agency by hundreds of members of the Japanese public, from nursery school pupils to a 90-year-old man.

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