---
title: "Adidas Is Going to Space, on the ISS, Where They’ll Do Space Shoe Stuff"
description: "Adidas is going to have their shoe material rocketed into space, where they're going to have their proprietary material tested aboard the ISS."
date: "2020-02-21"
modified: "2020-02-21"
authors:
  - name: "Foster Kamer"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
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url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/adidas-space-boost-iss-experiment"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "adidas"
  - "iss"
  - "sneakers"
  - "the digest"
---

# Adidas Is Going to Space, on the ISS, Where They’ll Do Space Shoe Stuff

![Adidas is going to have their shoe material rocketed into space, where they're going to have their proprietary material tested aboard the ISS.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/iss-adidas.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: NASA/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Shoe the Moon

A payload is being shot up to the ISS in early March on a SpaceX Dragon rocket. Among the contents of this [extraterrestrial delivery](<https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spx-20-research-highlights>)? A massive expansion to the station in the form of an exterior facility, shower technology for a study on water droplets in space, 3D printing experiments, human heart cell experiments, and... well, a package from legendary German sneaker company Adidas.

## Shoe Fly

The Adidas shipment is going to contain a package of pellets used for the midsole of its Boost shoes. By monitoring the pellets with a highspeed camera as they're compressed into the midsole, [the experiment aims to gain insight into how the pellets actually move](<https://www.adidas.com/us/blog/400437>) as they're being formed into a single material — something the company believes it'll be able to understand better in a zero-gravity environment.

## Space Jams

Adidas claims that once the footage and the materials make it back home, they'll be inspected to learn more about "what it takes to create truly out-of-this-world running technology" (groan). The shoe company also vaguely alludes to more collaborative efforts with NASA, which is great and all. But the question remains: When will they be able to design a shoe [as fundamentally cool as the Mars Yard 2](<https://stockx.com/nikecraft-mars-yard-shoe-2pt0-tom-sachs-space-camp>), at, like, a fractional amount of the price? Right. Good luck with that one.

**READ MORE:** [Improving Shoes, Showers, 3D Printing: Research Launching to the Space Station](<https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spx-20-research-highlights>) \[NASA\]

**MORE ON SHOES:** *[Brands Keep Sending Their Pointless Swag to the Space Station](<https://futurism.com/brands-pointless-swag-space-station>)*

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