NASA Retiring Last Operational KC-135A
NASA's Weightless Wonder V, the KC-135A it has used since 1995 to train astronauts and conduct experiments in simulated microgravity, has made its final flight. Better known as the Vomit Comet, for the physiological response of some of its passengers, the aircraft flew some 34,700 parabolic arcs...
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