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Technology

The Astronaut Who Plays the Flute in Space

Alexis C. Madrigal
April 4, 2011

Irish astronaut Cady Coleman likes to play the flute in space. Here, we see one of her performances in the International Space Station's cupola, the windowed observatory for ISS' residents. Space travel is not really how we thought it was going to be.

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