Japanese astronaut tests boomerang in zero-g

Takao Doi spent most of his 18 days in space helping attach a new Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station. But during his free time, he was able to engage in a little research of his own, throwing a boomerang inside the station and determining that it did in fact come back to him as it would have on earth. The experiment was conducted on the behest of his friend Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion. ...read more