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Light Flight

Utah Senator Jake Garn, who flew as a guest astronaut on the STS-51D space shuttle mission in April 1985, plays with a paper airplane inside Discovery’s mid-deck cabin. The stunt was part of an educational “Toys in Space” demonstration that also had astronauts playing with yo-yos and jacks in weightlessness. For more zero-g games, watch video (Windows Media or RealVideo) of Japanese astronaut Takao Doi flinging a boomerang around the International Space Station in March 2008.

(Video: NASA)