Full Story: "Takao Doi 'threw a boomerang and saw it come back' on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said yesterday.
Dr Doi, an engineering expert, carried out the 'experiment' after a request from Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion.
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The result opens up the question of why boomerangs on earth return to their thrower. It had been thought that gravity was necessary, and many people had expected Dr Doi's boomerang would fly upwards if released in space.
'I was very surprised and moved to see that it flew the same way it does on Earth,' the 53-year-old astronaut told his wife from space."
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