viral videos of astronauts trying eat food drink water in zero gravity environment is you would have come quite often but how about astronauts trying to play a sport in zero gravity falcon rocket was hogging all the press on tuesday members of the international space station roscosmos the russian government space decided have little bit fun with a game of badminton as you could imagine was no court or net but this special game in environment allowed the astronauts move around 360 degrees literally high flying action albeit in slow or rather from countries russia the united states and japan took part the badminton orbital tournament iss commander and cosmonaut roskosmosa had this say game the crew of the 54th expedition to the played in a doubles badminton and for me it s all the same that put the flag mars you ask badminton because love because badminton for me is not a sport and not even a hobby is a lifestyle in the first set the russian duo of misurkin and anton shkaplerov took mark vande hay usa and norishige kanai of the second set joseph akaba replaced vande hay and while it nt clear who but surely all the astronauts had super after the nasa astronaut vende hay shared his positive emotions and noted that in the future in ships that will carry us other worlds it is necessary to provide a module for a game since it is very useful the point of view of psychological relaxation and strengthening of friendly relations in a team