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Who\u2019s excited for the SpaceX launch on Saturday? We certainly are! For those of you unsure, Nasa and SpaceX are making history this Saturday 30th<\/sup> May, by launching two astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011! Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are due to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) at 8.22pm UK time, in a spacecraft built by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company. If successful, this will be the first time this act would have been performed by a privately-owned company. The mission is to show SpaceX\u2019s ability to successfully send humans back and forth from space safely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley in training. Image source:
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With all the excitement this got us thinking. Do magnets still work in space? Are they used in space missions, if so how? So, we did some investigating and here are our findings\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are many forums and articles that ask the question, do magnets work in space? We also get asked this question amongst avid space fans and our customers. We believe this is due to people thinking that magnets are affected once magnets come out of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. We can confirm that magnets DO work in space and are in fact used in space missions! Below is a video taken from in space that demonstrates this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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