Can an Astronaut Move Like a Falling Cat?

September 9, 2011 | In 1968, Professor Thomas R. Kane conducted an experiment to see if astronauts could move like falling cats. A photographer for LIFE Magazine, Ralph Crane, documented his results, and here we've turned them into a stop-motion video. More

Courtesy of: Thomas R. Kane and Ralph Crane for LIFE Magazine

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