An apology for "tweeting out such fake news" didn't come from a media member accused by President Trump, but from a Japanese astronaut whose
An apology for “tweeting out such fake news ” didn’t come from a media member accused by President Trump, but from a Japanese astronaut whose growth in outer space was miscalculated.
In a tweet on Monday, Norishige Kanai claimed he had grown by as much as 3 1/2 inches since arriving at the International Space Station on Dec. 19.
“I have a major announcement today,” Kanai wrote in Japanese, as translated by the BBC . “We had our bodies measured after reaching space, and wow, wow, wow, I had actually grown by as much as 9cm!”
As NASA points out, “It is a commonly known fact that astronauts living aboard the International Space Station grow up to 3 percent taller while living in microgravity.” The spine is allowed to stretch with less gravity pushing down on it. Come bedtime, a similar phenomenon happens here on Earth as well. After reclining for sleep, people can grow by a centimeter or 2, then after they get up the vertebrae compress once again.
