Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), for the first time in history, indulged in a game of badminton in space on Tuesday.
The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos released a video of the cosmonauts and astronauts from Russia, the United States and Japan playing the first ever badminton match in outer space.
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Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov played against their US peer Mark Vande Hei and Japanese Norishige Kanai in the first set, a Roscosmos statement said.
In the second set, NASA’s Joseph Acaba replaced Vande Hei, Xinhua news agency reported. While Roscosmos didn’t specify the final score, they said that ‘Friendship Won’, which in Russian terms normally means that the match was a draw.
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