It's 'Slime Time'! Nickelodeon's Green Slime Is Launching Into Space

[Judi Lynn]

By Hanneke Weitering 5 hours ago Science & Astronomy

This could get messy.



Nickelodeon slime is packaged in food-grade pouches for shipment to the International Space Station.(Image: © International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory)


The International Space Station is about to get "slimed."

Nickelodeon's iconic green slime, best known for being poured onto the heads of game show contestants on the television series "Slime Time Live" in the early 2000s, will launch into space today (July 24) on a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.

The television network is not planning to revive the old series in space, though. Rather than dumping buckets full of slime onto the astronauts — and creating a huge mess that could be extremely difficult to clean up in microgravity — Nickelodeon is sending its slime into space for science.

The science investigation, titled "Non-Newtonian Fluids in Microgravity," will examine the physical properties of slime in microgravity through a series of fun experiments, and astronauts will record videos of the "zero-g" slime to share with the world. (The term "zero-g" is actually a bit of a misnomer; the International Space Station is still subject to Earth's gravitational pull, but the astronauts experience a constant state of freefall as they speed around the Earth.)

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