A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth

Two high school students in Nova Scotia, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, asked Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (who is orbiting the planet right now) what would it be like to dip a wash cloth in water, (they suggested he clump it into a bottle, then pull it out) and squeeze it. On Earth, a really wet wash cloth, squeezed tight, will drip, right? Up on the International Space Station, wet wash cloths don't drip. What they do is like nothing I'd imagined.
By Robert Krulwich /npr