Astronauts on board the Space Shuttle conducting tests in orbit today released into their capsule's atmosphere a small blue burd, Kippy, hatched in outer space.
Scientists captured on film Kippy's first confused weightless zigzags in the air. With no genetic memory of weightlessness to guide Kippy, he and his recently matures little wings essentially had to reinvent the whole process of flight from scratch in the free fall of orbit.
"We gave Kippy a seed bell for his bravery," said flight capitain Don Montgomery. "He was brave. Kippy didn't have to fly, but he flew. Myself and the rest of the flight crew are very very proud."
(D. Coupland)
Scientists captured on film Kippy's first confused weightless zigzags in the air. With no genetic memory of weightlessness to guide Kippy, he and his recently matures little wings essentially had to reinvent the whole process of flight from scratch in the free fall of orbit.
"We gave Kippy a seed bell for his bravery," said flight capitain Don Montgomery. "He was brave. Kippy didn't have to fly, but he flew. Myself and the rest of the flight crew are very very proud."
(D. Coupland)
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