The astronauts aboard the International Space Station have taken time out to have some Olympic-focused fun.
While the ISS inhabitants spend most of their time working on science projects, they often down tools for special occasions, and the Paris Olympics, which kicked off in earnest at the weekend, is one such occasion.
Olympics on the International Space Station “The 2024 Olympic Games officially began in Paris, France on July 26, with athletes coming from around the world to compete,” NASA said in a message accompanying the video. “Meanwhile, above the world — on our orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station — NASA’s astronauts are getting into the Olympic spirit.”
During a warm-up, Butch Wilmore, on the station after arriving there with Suni Williams aboard the troubled Starliner spacecraft in June, drinks a floating blob of water as part of his warm-up routine before throwing a shot through the station in a space-based shot put event. With a lack of gravity in orbit, the shot just keeps on going … until it hits an interior wall of the orbital outpost, that is.
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