Velcro ...who cant live without?

Anousheh Ansari recently went to the Space Station… she was the first female/iranian space tourist. She was also the first person to blog from space...here are some interesting bits from her her blog entry Thank God for Velcro

Here are some excerpts..

• When you open a bag of soft food like yogurt or soup, if you are not really really careful, small yogurt bubbles or soup bubbles start floating around and then you can catch them with your spoon. But if you try to catch them too fast, one bubble hits your spoon and becomes 10 smaller bubbles and now you have to catch ten of them!
• I guess the closest thing to moving in weightlessness is floating in water. But there is a major difference. In water when you move your arms and legs, you move… in here you can move your arms and legs all you want, but you are not going anywhere.
• So God invented Velcro for this very purpose… to keep things in place in weightlessness. Everything here has Velcro attached to it…even your pants have Velcro strips. I thought things could be secured if I put them in my pockets and closed the zipper. Well they are secured until you open the zipper and take one out… here comes the other small items flying out..

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/our-call-from-space.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMghHs-DwvM