I've been lucky enough to be able to fly on NASA's low-gravity KC-135
flights (affectionately known as the Vomit Comet, and also the plane used
to film Apollo 13). The picture on my website
<http://mrg8.physics.wsu.edu> is me floating (sorry, wasn't taken with OM
equipment). On the plane you get about 20-30 seconds of zero gravity,
followed by about 40 seconds of about 2g. Repeat this 40 times in a
flight, and you start to understand the plane's nickname :) The one
thing you learn is that 20 seconds is just not long enough! I'd go on
the Shuttle in a second! Don't know about a six-month stint on the ISS,
though...
ObOly: I'm going to bring my OM2n and 21/3.5 on my next flight in
February :)
Mark Marr-Lyon
>If they called and offered me a seat, I'd be there by this afternoon. How
>could you pass it up? Who cares if it is scary?
>
>Tom
>
>From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> On 22 Jan 2001, at 20:03, dolphans1 wrote:
>>
>> > (I can't imagine riding on a Roman candle, you'd never get me in it.)
>>
>> Me, neither!
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