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Nasa sends cute Baby Yoda toy to space alongside SpaceX astronauts (VIDEO)


A cute soft toy of Baby Yoda was spotted floating around astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. — Picture courtesy of Twitter/MxsolutionsE
A cute soft toy of Baby Yoda was spotted floating around astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. — Picture courtesy of Twitter/MxsolutionsE

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 — It looks like there’s a surprise fifth passenger with the Crew-1 mission which went to the International Space Station (ISS) abroad SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

In a video clip circulating online, a plush toy version of Baby Yoda – from Disney+’s Star Wars series The Mandalorian – was spotted bobbing about inside the cabin.

 

 

However, having a stuffed toy aboard spacecraft is nothing out of ordinary.

Such lightweight dolls are often used as the “zero-gravity indicator” to determine when the spacecraft is in orbit and has reached a microgravity environment where Earth’s gravity no longer holds any power.

This, however, is not the first time SpaceX astronauts have taken cute zero-gravity indicators for their trips.

In March 2019, SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Must tweeted an image of a test launch, featuring a cute Earth-shaped soft toy.

 

 

The four astronauts – Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker from Nasa and Soichi Noguchi from Japan – on Sunday became the second-ever crewed flight of a SpaceX spacecraft.

The newly-launched capsule with the astronauts aboard successfully arrived at the ISS, where they will stay until April.

The Dragon capsule arrived after a 27-hour fully-automated flight from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.





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