Through the NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP), four juniors from Duke University: John Fang, Isaac Chan, Dan Choi, and Gary Sing, have the chance to design and perform a study on the effects of microgravity (nearly zero-g) on a subject of their own choosing aboard the KC-135A, a.k.a. NASA's "Vomit Comet." This blog will provide information about their experiments and document their adventure.

Saturday, July 31, 2004

Pictures, Pictures, Everywhere

Hello hello. You've seen the official pictures - but now, you'll get the chance to see the behind-the-scenes ones that completely reveal all our secrets! I know this seems too good to be true, and you're wondering how much this is going to cost you. Well, let me tell you - you won't believe your ears when you hear the deal that we've got for you! Only 4 payments of $19.99 will land you an exclusive look at our experience...oh wait...I can't do that? Alright, then nevermind. Here they are for free...



Here, we're loading our support system (milk crates and duct tape) onto the plane.



And this is the box that we used to do all our experiments in...and yes, it's ghetto, but it did the job and it had three levels of containment (the slide flasks, the box, and the vacuum bag).



Dan is floating...isn't this awesome! MicroG is an absolutely otherworldy experience!!


Isaac and Cookie Monster...meet Mr. Ceiling...



John's floating...as well as everybody else on the plane.



These are Mayra and Brian, two of the nicest people in the world! They literally got us on the plane, whether it was in helping us culturing cells, giving us ideas for the box, or even just staying late at lab so that we could finish what we had to do. They deserve massive props.

We'll be including a video of John's somsersaulting later...for some reason, we can't get upload it right now. But stay tuned!

Peace.

10 Comments:

Buck said...

Awesome photos - thanks for taking the time to post them! It looks like you guys had a blast :-)

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Cat Napalm said...

Wow! That is so exciting! I want to float too.

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Wengin Song said...

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zeroeffect said...

WOW! What an awesome experience. Thanks for sharing :)

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MizZ GiGgLe bOXXXx said...

That must have been fun! i would love to float like that!

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Laurence Way said...

Amazing pictures guys and an excellent desciption of the whole experience. It must have beem something quite incredible.

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JoAnna said...

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Dave said...

looks like nothing but a whole lot of fun!

I'm sure there was a little bit of work involved though. Good luck with whatever you guys do in future, now that you've essentially finished up there at NASA... NASA!! That's such an accomplishment....right? Remember these names people :)

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