Nippon.com on Twitter: "Astronaut Kanai Norishige corrects an earlier tweet in which he said that he had grown 9 centimeters taller in space. When he measured again, he found it was just 2 centimeters. https://t.co/nOrHkyBEcH"

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1. Nippon.com‏ @nippon_en 9 Jan 2018
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  He apologizes for the "fake news" after media picked up on his mismeasurement.https://twitter.com/Astro_Kanai/status/950877164630659073 …
  
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  計測ミス（？）なのに、大変な話題になってしまったみたいで、とんだフェイクニュースを大変失礼しました。腰や背中は痛くないし、むしろ肩こりがなくなったくらいなので、やっぱり9cmは伸びてないと思います。さすがベテランのシュカプレロフ飛行士。帰りのソユーズにも乗れそうで、少し安心です。
  
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