Video: Boomerang In Space

Video of the test is now public:

During his free time on the International Space Station, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, 53, “threw a boomerang and saw it come back,” an official at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. The newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported the astronaut, who threw the boomerang at the request of Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion, said he was “very surprised and moved to see it flew the same way as it does on Earth.”

12 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 1, 2008 at 10:48 am

Categories: General Japan Tags: boomerage, ISS, japan, space

kaito

A fun experiment, but I’m pretty sure most everyone knew the answer already. The physics properties (?) of it makes sense to work in space too, right.

kaito

I know only basic physics, so testing it in microgravity was good

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stereo

When you through a boomerang on earth, it reaches its highest point at some time and then “falls down” to the place it was thrown. Now we know it was not “falling down” due to gravity. Remarkable finding.

the overthinker

The video said this was due to the short flight length, and that a longer one probably would just float up. Personally I’ve never managed to get a boomerang to return, though I’ve never tried it with one of those “easy boomerang” toys, only a real one (i.e. curved wooden stick).

ダビ

Naisu kyacchi!
Dr. Pepsi

Nice Catchey
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MRL

Awesome to see! I always love new seeing new weird stuff done in freefall.
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Volbla

That would be fun

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