Scientists popping water balloons in weightlessness (microgravity)

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Uploaded by on May 26, 2009

Glenn Fluid Mechanics Scientist, Dr. Mark Weislogel, and his team of researchers burst approximately 50 water balloons over a four-day flight campaign aboard a DC-9. Over the last 10 years, footage from the water balloon experiments has been used in textbooks, scientific journals, and classrooms worldwide.

Aside from looking really cool, these water balloon experiments show how large liquid drops behave in a low-gravity environment and how easily and rapidly they can be deployed. Experiments and demonstrations like these are precursors to large-scale large liquid drop deployment tests that might be considered for future space experiments on exploration missions.

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  • what made it fall?

  • @DarxLotus  In some of the clips, the water falls rapidly to the floor of the airplane. That is when the airplane recovers from the fall and starts to fly level and then up again.

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  • wow that has to be the most anoying female voice i ever heard

  • some epic watering bending xD

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  • show us what happens when you mash your face into a massive waterblob! x)

  • This video is really cool and I mean nothing against the creator by saying this but.. don't think its really hilarious that some people have no water at all... and we are playing with ours in space.

  • that looks fun!

  • that was so cool!!!

  • @reneee1992 she is narrating this from the kitchen

  • Science!

  • This could as be used to demonstrate formation of large bodies in space, in a zero g environment.

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