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Here’s something cool to do with your leftover candy corn – all you have to do is head to space.

Astronauts are allowed to bring special “crew preference” items when they go up in space. NASA astronaut Don Pettit chose candy corn for his five and a half month stint aboard the International Space Station. But these candy corn were more than a snack, Pettit used them for experimentation.

See how he did it:

Happy Halloween! 

Guncotton in a pumpkin and the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalysed by potassium iodide, on the roof of the Ri.