An Astronaut Made This Floating Candy Corn Sphere For Science

astronaut are allow to add special “ bunch predilection ” items with them when they go into space . NASA astronaut Don Pettit opt confect corn for his intimately six - calendar month mission aboard the International Space Station . But , this confect had a destiny much swell than being a Halloween snack .

Pettit created a zero - g sphere using H2O and pieces of candy corn . Why ? His diminutive edible Death Star was , in fact , a macroscopic doctrine of analogy to how a surface-active agent molecule works . Or , as it is more commonly call : Georgia home boy .

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