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Vomit Comet Back on Earth

            Johnson Space Center used to use this KC-135 to give micro gravity training to astronauts. Dimly visible on the nose is an illustration of the flight path, where the plane would dive to pick up speed, then pull up and over in a parabolic arc, which would provide up to almost a minute of free fall for anyone inside the plane. A typical training flight would last for several hours and involve a large number of such maneuvers. Anyone who managed to get through the first one or two without losing his or her lunch usually had a pretty hard time holding it down for the whole flight. So, they called it the Vomit Comet.
   

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

Taken on: April 5, 2009

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Texas

Houston

Airplane

Vomit

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Sets appears in: • Houston 2013 • Clouds

Groups appears in: • Texas • The Skies Of Texas more » • Texas History • Clear Lake Area, TX « less

Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ5, f/8.0, 1/320 sec, 4.7mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-TZ5
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	4.7mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Contrast:	High
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh
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