When as kids most of us would have wanted to be an astronaut and dreamed of doing all that cool stuff that a astronauts got a chance to do. One of the coolest things that everyone want to do is float in no gravityand experience weightlessness like we see in movies, videos and photos.Well for doing all these stuff we do not need to go to NASA and be a astronaut, but we can do it by remaining inside the Earth orbit. NASA has a special plane that provide the experience of weightlessness. ZERO G Corporation is a American company that will give you weightlessness experience at a sum of about $5000(Rs 4lakh approx).
In order to train astronauts,conducting research and for shooting space movies depicting gravity free , NASA uses a reduced gravity aircraft that provides brief weightless environment in which people can float like they do in space. The aircraft has been nicknamed as "vomit comet".
The aircraft do it by following an elliptic path relative to the centre of Earth. While doing so, the aircraft and payload inside it are in free fall at certain points of its flight path. The aircraft gives about 25 seconds of weightlessness for every 65 seconds of flight in each parabola.
People can also experience weightlessness by giving $4950 plus tax to the Zero G Corporation which has a contract with NASA and uses G-FORCE ONE aircraft , a modified Boeing 727-200.
Vomit Comet has been used to film the weightlessness scene of the movie "Apollo 13".
In order to train astronauts,conducting research and for shooting space movies depicting gravity free , NASA uses a reduced gravity aircraft that provides brief weightless environment in which people can float like they do in space. The aircraft has been nicknamed as "vomit comet".
The aircraft do it by following an elliptic path relative to the centre of Earth. While doing so, the aircraft and payload inside it are in free fall at certain points of its flight path. The aircraft gives about 25 seconds of weightlessness for every 65 seconds of flight in each parabola.
People can also experience weightlessness by giving $4950 plus tax to the Zero G Corporation which has a contract with NASA and uses G-FORCE ONE aircraft , a modified Boeing 727-200.Vomit Comet has been used to film the weightlessness scene of the movie "Apollo 13".
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