{"id":18767,"date":"2017-10-14T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-astronauts-flip-when-they-get-to-play-with-a-fidget-spinner-on-the-space-station\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T10:00:28","slug":"watch-astronauts-flip-when-they-get-to-play-with-a-fidget-spinner-on-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-astronauts-flip-when-they-get-to-play-with-a-fidget-spinner-on-the-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch astronauts flip when they get to play with a fidget spinner on the space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Fidget spinner spinning in space!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82t9Tk9dUHs?start=55&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not entirely sure if fidget spinners are still a thing on Earth. But judging by a new video from NASA, they\u2019re still cool on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The video uploaded on Friday by the Johnson Space Center YouTube account was trending Saturday on the social platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long does it spin? I\u2019m not sure, but it\u2019s a great way to experiment with Newton\u2019s laws of motion!\u201d the description on the video reads.<\/p>\n<p>With the ubiquitous toy spinning in the foreground, Earth can be seen through a window of the station.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Mark T. Vande Hei, Joseph M. Acaba and Randy Bresnik, along with European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, perform a series of flips, spins and tricks with the spinners \u2014 which are normally found between the fingertips of kids back on terra firma.<\/p>\n<p>STEM fans take note: Science Technology Engineering and Math are great, but Spinning Toys Equal Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re not entirely sure if fidget spinners are still a thing on Earth. But judging by a new video from NASA, they\u2019re still cool on the International Space Station. The video uploaded on Friday by the Johnson Space Center YouTube account was trending Saturday on the social platform. \u201cHow long does it spin? I\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1668,5319,717,233,190,21,4885,5320],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astronauts","tag-fidget-spinner","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-toys","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}