What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami crane.
Minutes after arriving in Earth orbit on Friday (March 14), the members of Crew-10 — SpaceX's 10th operational mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's commercial crew program — revealed their choice for the traditional plush toy used to signal they entered the microgravity environment of outer space. Mission specialist Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) held out the bird to float, while commander Anne McClain of NASA introduced it to the world.
