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            Weightless Wonder/Vomit Comet at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas

This plane was used by Johnson Space Center to train astronauts to give them as much of a taste of weightlessness as they could before sending them into orbit. The plane would fly up and over the top of a parabolic arc, at which time everything in the cargo area would fall at the same rate, thereby simulating weightlessness. After all, what we think of as weightlessness is just that - free fall, as nothing in a gravitational field is truly weightless.

The typical training flight would fly dozens of those arcs, and most trainees could handle the first few of them. But after twenty or so, all bets were off. Hence, its nickname, the Vomit Comet.

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Taken in: United States / Texas / Olcott (show map)

Taken on: May 5, 2021

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Camera: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. PENTAX K-3 Mark III, f/3.5, 1/3200 sec, 14.4mm (=22mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. PENTAX K-3 Mark III
Lens:	Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	14.4mm (35mm equivalent: 22mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Contrast:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Luminar 4
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