From Space: Sultan Al Neyadi answers the question that baffles millions

Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi answered a question he had posed three days earlier at the International Space Station to “only smart people.”

On Monday (March 13th), Sultan Al Neyadi asked a question about the movement of objects in the absence of gravity.

Speaking from the International Space Station in a video posted on Twitter, he explained the motion of the body, which can either be rotating from left to right or from top to bottom, noting that in both cases the motion continues in the same direction.

He explained that the third rotation can either be intertwined, where the direction of the body changes from right to left, or the opposite from bottom to top. He asked his followers about the reason behind this, pointing out that it can be experienced even on the ground.

On Thursday, Sultan Al Neyadi appeared in a new video, where he said, “Thank you all for your response to my recent question. Your answers always make me confident that we have creative minds in our Arab world, and these minds are our hope and bright future towards thoughtful people who have a passion for science”.

Sultan Al Neyadi added that the difference in body movement observed in the video is attributable to the theory of the medium axis, as everything revolves around several axes, and the movement of the body varies according to these axes.

Al Neyadi arrived on March 3rd with crew-6 on the International Space Station aboard Space X-Dragon Endeavor for the longest mission in Arab history in six months.

Launched by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center as part of the Emirates Astronaut Program, the mission to the International Space Station is the first long-term mission for Arab astronauts in history.