Describing the Undescribable on the "Vomit Comet" : NASA Blog Post

Link: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/freefalling

Organizer: Heather Smith (and friends), Colorado Univ./Boulder

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The Colorado University - Boulder team flew several microgravity parabolas on the NASA "Vomit Comet" while conducting experiments with two Wilberforce pendulums – basically a spring with a mass, or weight, on one or both ends of the spring -- and observed what happens to the pendulums when they are compressed and then released in microgravity. These stories and photos provide an especially good window into what virtual microgravity (plus a short test of hypoxia) feels like and how valuable research can be done under these circumstances. This is the ultimate hands-on education experience.