'Zero Gravity' in 360 - A Trip on a Parabolic Flight

watching astronauts in space has always made us one to be jealous just think of all the weird things that happen in weightlessness and all the demonstrations we could do going into space is a little out of our league but luckily you can recreate a near weightless environment right here on earth reduced gravity aircraft have been used by space agencies since the 1950s astronauts for NASA's first space program Mercury trained in such planes as did all the astronauts that followed to simulate the sensation of weightlessness the plane needs to follow a parabolic flight path it pitches its nose up and using its thrust and elevator control starts ascending by then reducing thrust and lowering the nose the plane is put into freefall in weightlessness kicks in this lasts until the nose gets pulled up again in the entire manoeuvre can be repeated again during training astronauts get around 20 seconds of weightlessness for each parabola in this manner and often go through 40 to 60 parabolas per flight no wonder then that a full 1/3 of the passengers become violently ill during this which is our in these types of playing the nickname the vomit common you

Channel: The Royal Institution

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Keywords: Ri, Royal Institution, 360, 360 video, zero gravity, vomit comet, parabolic flight, Reduced Gravity Aircraft, Weightlessness, science, space, Miss France

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Length: 4min 29sec (269 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 11 2015