Our day started out with physiological training . . . this means we learned about hypoxia, hyperventilation, and of course motion sickness. Yes, that was as fun as it sounded, and made a little worse by the many examples the speaker had for each case scenario . . . lovely. :( We then headed to Ellington Field to complete our experiments and perform them in gravity. My team has two experiments-the first will fly on Wednesday dealing with inertial balance, and Thursday the projectile launcher experiment will fly (the one I will be researching). We will be shooting ball bearings with a spring launcher in hypergravity. Everything will be a little/lot heavier. This tends to make it a little harder, and can make you a little sicker . . . hmmmmm.
The teachers I'm working with are all really great-we seemed to right away click, and just have fun with what we are doing! This is so exciting! And of course we all got aviator sun glasses to complete our looks.
And to get this straight . . . the Vomit Comet is the name for the plane used for these types of missions and for the filming of Apollo 13 which is now retired and on display at Ellington Field, the Weightless Wonder is NASA's airplane in the hanger (pictured below), and I'll actually be flying on G-Force One which is a contracted airplane NASA uses. Got that?!
Day two is starting . . got to jet! :-)
The teachers I'm working with are all really great-we seemed to right away click, and just have fun with what we are doing! This is so exciting! And of course we all got aviator sun glasses to complete our looks.
And to get this straight . . . the Vomit Comet is the name for the plane used for these types of missions and for the filming of Apollo 13 which is now retired and on display at Ellington Field, the Weightless Wonder is NASA's airplane in the hanger (pictured below), and I'll actually be flying on G-Force One which is a contracted airplane NASA uses. Got that?!
Day two is starting . . got to jet! :-)
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