Thank You for Flying the Vomit Comet
Abstract
We describe our flight aboard NASA’s C9 “Weightless Wonder,” more affectionately known as “The Vomit Comet.” The C9 is NASA’s aircraft that creates multiple periods of microgravity by conducting a series of parabolic maneuvers over the Gulf of Mexico. Our experiment examined the stability of “liquid bridges,” small strands of fluid suspended between two supports, as they entered and exited microgravity. The flight was co-sponsored by AAPT, APS and NASA's Reduced Gravity Program.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006AAS...209.5902D