Shuttle Engineer Henry Pohl Discusses the Non-intuitiveness of Microgravity

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In this lecture on power and propulsion systems, provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Space Shuttle engineer Henry Pohl discusses $10 million toilets, the difficulty in predicting fluid flows in microgravity, and the need for testing in a field where intuition can be a poor guide.

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