Useful Items on the ISS

In space you can’t go shopping, so you need to take lots of useful stuff with you. In this challenge Richard shows how Velcro, magnets and a deck of cards are must have space travel accessories. Watch as he sticks things to walls, detects he is over Canada and shows how the magicians’ favourite brand of playing cards (Bicycle cards), make a scientific journey of their own.

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