Adidas announced plans to send its proprietary material for experiments on the International Space Station.
The company will send pellets of its proprietary expanded thermoplastic polyurethane — known as Boost — to the ISS as part of a launch reportedly set for sometime next year. Once safely in orbit, astronauts will fill a mold of a shoe midsole with the material to examine — with a high-speed camera — how the pellets move and interact in space.
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