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Experiments on board NASA's C-9 plane:

The new vomit-comet

First some preparations - (flight) training in the hypobaric chamber at NASA's neutral buoyancy lab:

The flyers hypobaric chamber
neutral buoyancy lab

The decompression chamber...
This window view demonstrates a sudden drop in air pressure and associated fogging. Because the zero-g planes are more likely than regular planes to experience decpmpression, everyone has to be trained for this eventuality.

Flying time
The crew Inaugural flight experiment set-up
experiment Weightlessness!! afloat...
The experimental data (shown at right) consisted of displacing starch grains during periods of weightlessness by a high gradient magnetic field. This field was created by inserting wedges of varying geometry between two high-powered permanent NeFeBo magnets. The video shows the sedimentation of grains, the phase of weightlessness, and displacement of the grains after wedge insertion.
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email: Karl H. Hasenstein