{"id":511273,"date":"2026-06-21T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:32:08","slug":"fifa-world-cup-ball-sent-to-space-aboard-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511273\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup ball sent to space aboard ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts aboard the ISS recreated a 2019 experiment using the official adidas 2026 FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda, to explore how balance, weight distribution and embedded technologies can affect a football\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA, the experiment examined how factors such as a ball\u2019s center of mass, overall balance and built-in match sensors influence its movement and behavior during play.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared on NASA\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZz4bjIjhdm\/?img_index=5&amp;igsh=MWM5cGsxYzg1cmt0MA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0account showed astronauts playing with the World Cup ball in zero gravity aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Qazinform<\/a> News Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/nasa-names-artemis-iii-crew-as-agency-moves-toward-2027-moon-mission-9295a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that NASA recently announced the four-member crew for the Artemis III mission, a key milestone in the agency\u2019s plans to return humans to the Moon and prepare for future missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronauts aboard the ISS recreated a 2019 experiment using the official adidas 2026 FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-511273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}