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Cmdr_Hadfield

  1. 3D Binoculars - for helping bring daily life on Space Station to 3D glasses near you twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  2. Spaceflight is like rapid aging - this machine is onboard to help understand muscle atrophy twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  3. This is important for the near future of human space exploration: gmanetwork.com/news/story/259…
  4. @Johny_Canuck - sorry, no. Just the intoxicating nature of weightlessness.
  5. @lkielar - sorry, no watermelon in space. Imagine the seed spitting possibilities!
  6. Gain weight in space? - French food tasting for 'Energy' experiment, how to stay healthy when weightless twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  7. METERON Robot - we'll drive this surface Eurobot from Space Station, developing time delay networks for Moon/Mars twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  8. @redmarine754 - yes, under parachute
  9. @ronsmytheiii - Ron, USOS gets cargo under contract via ATV, HTV, Soyuz and Progress. Great to have Dragon's capability in the fleet.
  10. The main importance of Dragon is not that it's commercial. It's that the capsule lands back on Earth, with cargo. twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  11. Perception experiment: how we see optical illusions with/without gravity, further understanding our senses twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  12. Sundial time's ~14:10. It's on a West wall, thus sees Sun only starting 2PM. Also shows Zodiac signs, lat/long, summer hours
  13. German sundial. What time is it? On a wall near the European Astronaut Centre twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
  14. @RetroCanada - Thank you, Curt; please tell them 'Hello!' from me. Best regards from EAC, Koln, Germany.