Did you know astronauts age slower in space? Thanks to time dilation, their high speeds aboard the ISS make time tick a little slower than on Earth!
But don’t pack your bags yet. After 6 months, they’re only about 0.005 seconds younger. Still, pretty mind-blowing!
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ID: Christian is wearing a blue shirt and glasses, sitting at a white table in front of a white wall. He signs as captions and visuals appear. At 0:02, a blue Alabama state shows with a red pin to locate where Huntsville is in the state. At 0:09, a rocket appears, then the NASA building, then the ISS. At 0:25, a clock appears, then the relative velocity time dilation formula, then an image that shows a person on the ground “time=normal” with a rocket in space “time=slower.” The closing video shows white background with blue text: Enjoyed this video? Black text: Please consider donating; your support will help keep our content & resources FREE! Green button with black text: atomichands.com/donate. Image of an iPhone with Atomic Hands’ menu webpage shows with menu options: ASL STEM Storybooks, ASL STEM Videos, ASL STEM Resources, ASL STEM Dictionaries, ASL STEM News, ASL STEM Events, and Deaf STEMist Network.
Transcript: Where am I? I’m in Huntsville, Alabama. Why is Huntsville signed this way? Huntsville is known for rocket production and for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where they work with the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts return from the International Space Station (ISS) having aged less than they would have on Earth. Because of “relative velocity time dilation”, the high-speeds that astronauts aboard the ISS are traveling mean that time slows down for them relative to people on the surface of the Earth. It’s not a failsafe anti-aging trick though: after 6 months on the ISS, astronauts are only 0.005 seconds younger than the rest of us. Very interesting!