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  • I'm Destin from Huntsville Alabama. This is Sadie and Spotsy. On the International Space Station,

  • if you're free falling in one position, without touching anything, with no

  • spin, is it possible to wiggle in such a way that you're able to rotate to a

  • different angular position and then stop? On Smarter Every Day we demonstrated this

  • with a high speed camera and a cat, who is a non holonomic system and can do this

  • by extending his legs, arching his back and twisting in a very specific pattern.

  • So can humans do this on orbit? You want to say hey to the astronauts? - Hey.

  • - Thank you. We look up to you guys.

I'm Destin from Huntsville Alabama. This is Sadie and Spotsy. On the International Space Station,

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