Sentences with phrase «as the vomit comet»

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This feeling is familiar to anyone who has drifted over a hill on a roller coaster or flown on a parabolic «zero - gravity» flight — often referred to as a «vomit comet» ride because of the intense nausea the experience can trigger.

She has traveled to the South Pole as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation program for journalists and been a passenger on NASA's infamous vomit comet.

As the CEO and chairman of both the X Prize Foundation and the Zero Gravity Corporation, which provides temporary weightlessness by way of «vomit comet» plane rides, Diamandis eats, drinks, and breathes space.

The vomit comet can give something resembling zero gravity - the preferred term is micro-gravity, as in very little gravity.