16. Is space very interesting, and could it be fun? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

You bet! Imagine floating freely and being able to fly from one end of the room to the other with just a gentle push from your legs against the bulkhead walls of the Space Station. There is no up or down— water droplets form perfectly round balls held together by surface tension as they float freely in your spacecraft or on board the ISS. Astronauts repairing the Hubble Space Telescope routinely lifted heavy loads while they were positioned in the footholds on the end of the manipulator arm. And best of all, during our free time, we can witness incredible details on the Earth passing below our observation port on the ISS, and sometimes we even get to see a spectacular aurora borealis occurring below and around us!

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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski

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

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