Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) on the Axiom-4 mission, gave a fascinating glimpse into life in orbit. Sharing a video on X (formerly Twitter), he used a simple experiment to explain why astronauts appear weightless in space. In the clip, he demonstrates changing a camera lens aboard the ISS.

When he first arrived at the ISS, Shukla admitted he was unsure how objects would behave in space.

“Believe it or not—everything you see in this frame is falling. When I first reached the International Space Station, I had this strange hesitation: if I let go of something, won’t it just fall? On Earth, that’s exactly what happens. In space, though, my early instinct was to politely hand over items to crew-mates… instead of just

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