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Where Tears Don’t Fall

  • July 25, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Tears don’t fall in space. In a 2013 video, International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield showed that, in zero gravity, water from crying forms a ball on your eye that just keeps building up until it spreads across your face — or you wipe it off.

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