01. Is it more difficult to drink in space? (A K2S Question)

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How would we drink without having the liquid fall out of the cup? If liquid floats out of the cup, does it blob and can we catch it in our mouths?

(NP) It is more difficult to drink in space because there is no apparent gravity to hold a drink in the cup. So instead of using cups, we drink through straws from small bags. However, if we were to spill any of our drinks, they would indeed form spheres held together by surface tension. In fact, if you carefully form such a sphere with a drink like water, you can insert a straw into the floating sphere of spilled water, and drink it from the inside out!

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Answer provided by Charles Camarda, Ph.D. & Nicholas Patrick, Ph.D. & Dr. Jonathan B. Clark

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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