The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have a modified KC-135A aircraft, which is used to demonstrate weightlessness. The popular KC-135A is known as the “vomit comet” and is usually used to train astronauts. About 80 percent of the aircraft’s flights are conducted in support of research and engineering. A good amount of this research comes from undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. This paper covers a team of undergraduates, and a journalist through this once in a lifetime experience. While trying to overcome the physical changes of the flight, the undergraduates will be conducting personal experiments. Reporter Glenn Zorpette tags along for the flight as a journalist. The article, “A Taste of Weightlessness”, tal

Once the flight is over and the passengers have filed off the plane, the aftermath of the flight can be noticed. “It turns out that 10 of 21 became physically ill,” states Zorpette. One passenger went into shock and had to be carried off the aircraft. The flight crew says, this kind of reaction is rare and usually treated through intravenous fluids. The main reason of the flight was to let the undergraduate students perform their experiments in a weightless environment. Too bad they were unable to record any comprehensible data due to the circumstances. This is a common frustration of scientists and students, but they somehow always learn something from the experiment.

ks about this experience. Like most industrial tasks, training and familiarization is required before completing it. The group of undergraduates and journalist Zorpette all had to complete the training.

The team is trained on the signs and stages of motion sickness before vomiting. Throughout training, the instructors stress the subject of vomiting. The article states that, “… one gets violently sick, one gets mildly sick, and a third doesn’t get suck at all…” The team is told to have the vomit bag out and ready at stage three and to get to the back of the plane if possible, to avoid sympathy sickness. Charles Shannon left the team with some advice: “If someone seems sick, get away from him. If they’ve been holding it in and holding it in, you could have an explosive force of vomitus, and in zero-g it sprays well.” After the lectures and physical tests, each member is given a written test about motion sickness, emergency equipment, gas laws, atmospheric science, and physiological principles of balance. After successful completion of all this criteria, the team is ready for the shy.

Along with the undergraduates and journalist Glenn Zorpette, a NASA flight crew, a flight surgeon, and photographer will participate in the flight. The series of parabolas, which is a curve generated by a point moving so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from

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