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Zero-Gravity Coffee Cup
Don Pettit might be my new favorite astronaut. He has a Ph.D in chemical engineering and an inquisitive disposition, and has been using household objects to create awesome physics demonstrations on board the International Space Station. Here he is demonstrating a really cool zero-gravity coffee cup:
And here's Pettit using a knitting needle to create neat-o 'orbiting' water droplets. It's not quite a mission to Mars, but I'll take what I can get.
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
