Video: Lessons from space: what happens when an astronaut wrings out a wet cloth in orbit The Canadian Astronaut filmed himself demonstrating how water disperses in space. He poured water on a facecloth, making sure that it was completely saturated, then proceeded to wring it out. Instead of pouring away from the cloth as it would on Earth, the water collected around both the cloth and Hadfield's hands, to form a tubelike structure. The video has already been viewed more than 100,000 times since it was posted on YouTube on April 17.