Baby Yoda Serves As Zero-Gravity Indicator on SpaceX Crew-1 Mission to the International Space Station
As the SpaceX Dragon spaceship with NASA and JAXA crew members traveled to the International Space Station as part of the historic SpaceX Crew-1 mission, the astronauts onboard revealed that a fifth occupant had joined them on their adventure. This little stowaway, a small, plush version of The Child" (Baby Yoda") from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian was brought onboard to serve as a zero-gravity indicator, to show the crew when they have entered zero-gravity.
SpaceX engineer Jessica Anderson explained what she was seeing through the mission live stream.
And as you can see live, they have now revealed to us the zero-g indicator and it looks like a little baby Yoda!
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The tradition of carrying dolls into space as a zero-gravity indicator has a long history, starting in 1961 with the first human in space. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin carried a doll onboard him on the Vostok 1 Mission just to watch it float when he entered orbit.
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