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How to perform yo-yo tricks in space

By Brad Plumer, Published: September 24, 2012 at 1:00 pmE-mail the writer

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Of all the research that has come out of the International Space Station, this is clearly the most useful. Astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates how to do yo-yo tricks in a zero gravity environment:

(Via Jason Kottke.)

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