The trajectory of the aircraft is what interferes with the equilibrium. Along with the lecture, the team will experience hypoxia, to give them an idea of what it is, for recognition. For this experience, the team members were placed in a hypobaric chamber allowing the team to see how they respond to loss of cabin pressure. Once the pressure in the chamber equals that of 25,000 feet, the team members take off their masks and feel the different stages of hypoxia first hand. Once hypoxia familiarization and training is completed, the team is lectured on motion sickness.
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 a fixed line, will take place over the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. During these series, the undergraduates conduct their experiments, the journalist records for media purposes, and the photographer pictorial records the events.