The company DHL will send a parcel to space

Logistics company DHL will send two parcels to the ISS, ssobschaetsya in an official press release the company. The load on the space station will be delivered to the spacecraft "Soyuz". Running the ship appointed to the October 12.

At the ISS sixth space tourist Richard Gerriott hold with the assumptions physical experiment, which he zasnimet on video. Gerriott push two different weight of cargo moving on a circular path, with equal force. The purpose of the experience - to determine whether the goods come "to finish" at the same time or at different times.

The experiment was developed by the German Foundation "Youth study in conjunction with the German Aerospace Center. Thirteen students interested in science, gathered in the DHL Innovation Center in Bonn on 12 September and submitted their predictions of the outcome of the experience, equipped with mathematical calculations. The one whose predictions are more accurate, get a grant from DHL.

At the ISS are regularly held educational experiments. For example, in March 2008, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi run on the space station boomerang. He showed that in weightlessness boomerang back to his man started. Participants in the American space missions regularly answer questions earth, while on the ISS.