Sentences with phrase «vomit comet»

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.

During each cycle on the so - called vomit comet, volunteers had 20 to 30 seconds to test out varying walk and run speeds on a treadmill (similar to what's pictured) when the gravity on them fell to one - sixth of that on Earth.

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It's one thing to design a ridiculous vomit comet that betrays the laws of gravity and physics, it's another thing entirely to witness your horrible creation from the view of those digital avatars forced to endure it.

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.

It's euphemistically called the «vomit comet.»

Big waves and big surf are commonplace here and the local North - to - South Island ferry is endearingly referred to as the vomit comet.

Packing for Mars had moments of extreme, unbeatable fun, like the zero - gravity flight in an airplane nicknamed the «vomit comet» [which nosedives for 20 to 25 seconds at a time to produce weightlessness inside].

That means taking the whole thing up on the vomit comet and having some poor guy go on demand.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, shown here aboard NASA's «vomit comet» aircraft in 2007, has won a $ 3 million prize.

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.

SHAKEN AND STIRRED A trip in the «vomit comet» or a marathon dive in a massive indoor pool: another ordinary day for an astronaut trainee.

They made numerous attempts to find a solution, even looking at a «vomit comet» — it's a plane used for training astronauts that provides a brief near - weightless environment — the effect would last only 20 seconds.

Or, propose a project that may land you a seat on the ultimate roller coaster (aka: the «vomit comet»), NASA aircraft that produces periods of micro and hyper gravity ranging from 0 to 2 g's.

These flights are nicknamed the «vomit comet» because of the nausea that is often induced.