--- title: Watch an Astronaut Play Ping Pong in Space description: NASA released a video of American astronaut Scott Kelly, who celebrated his 300th day in space, playing ping pong with a water ball canonical: https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-22T00:47:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:21:05.764Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch an Astronaut Play Ping Pong in Space With a Water Droplet og:description: "Try this, Mary Poppins!" og:url: https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5182237bd2c0aee7/69887a18a988ca5bcf6b639e/scott-kelly.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: scott-kelly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Astronaut Play Ping Pong in Space With a Water Droplet twitter:description: "Try this, Mary Poppins!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5182237bd2c0aee7/69887a18a988ca5bcf6b639e/scott-kelly.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Astronaut Scott Kelly Play Ping Pong in Space With a Water Droplet  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 22, 2016 12:47 AM UTC  Scott Kelly  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 22, 2016 12:47 AM UTC Astronaut Scott Kelly may be in space, but that isn’t stopping him from having a bit of fun. Want proof? On Thursday, Kelly tweeted a video of himself playing ping pong with a water ball aboard the International Space Station. “Try this, Mary Poppins!” Kelly said in the post, but there’s no supercalifragilistic magic involved here. Instead, Kelly uses hydrophobic paddles that repel water to bounce a ball of water back and forth. Kelly, who celebrated his [300th day in space on Thursday](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/690274265556332544), is spending a year aboard the [International Space Station](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/iss-tracker/). The ISS reached [15 years of occupancy](http://time.com/4094719/space-station-fifteen-years/) in November. [**_Watch Live:_** _Astronauts Return to Earth After a Year in Space_](http://time.com/4240847/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-return-earth-watch-live-stream-online/) TIME is producing a [series of documentary films](http://time.com/4156552/astronauts-conduct-emergency-spacewalk-on-space-station/) about two astronauts’ yearlong mission aboard the space station. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/"},"headline":"Watch Astronaut Scott Kelly Play Ping Pong in Space With a Water Droplet","datePublished":"2016-01-22T00:47:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:21:05.764Z","description":"\"Try this, Mary Poppins!\"","url":"https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/","keywords":["A Year In Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5182237bd2c0aee7/69887a18a988ca5bcf6b639e/scott-kelly.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5182237bd2c0aee7/69887a18a988ca5bcf6b639e/scott-kelly.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"scott-kelly","caption":"","creditText":"Scott Kelly","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/a-year-in-space/","name":"A Year In Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4189722/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-ping-pong-video/","name":"Watch Astronaut Scott Kelly Play Ping Pong in Space With a Water Droplet"}}]}] ```