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GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-3 - WEIGHTLESSNESS EXPERIMENT - AMES RESEARCH CENTER (ARC), CA

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-3 - WEIGHTLESSNESS EXPERIMENT - AMES RESEARCH CENTER...

S65-18762 (March 1965) --- Effects of the weightless environment on cell division, the basic growth process for living tissue, will be studied during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight scheduled for March 23, 1965. A sp... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-III - WEIGHTLESSNESS EXPERIMENT - AMES RESEARCH CENTER (ARC), CA

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-III - WEIGHTLESSNESS EXPERIMENT - AMES RESEARCH CENT...

S65-18766 (March 1965) --- Diagram of experiment planned for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission scheduled on March 23, 1965, to find out if there are effects of weightlessness on individual living cells. The round can... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - TRAINING - PILOT IN WEIGHTLESSNESS USING EXPERIMENT TOOL - FL

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - TRAINING - PILOT IN WEIGHTLESSNESS USING EXPERIM...

S66-24410 (18 Feb. 1966) --- Astronaut David R. Scott performs a maintenance and repair experiment with a battery-powered tool during a state of weightlessness while in extravehicular activity (EVA) training on... More

ASTRONAUT DAVID R. SCOTT - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 PRIME CREW - PATRICK AFB (PAFB), FL

ASTRONAUT DAVID R. SCOTT - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - GEMINI-TITAN (G...

S66-21416 (18 Feb. 1966) --- Astronaut David R. Scott, in full spacesuit, holds maneuvering unit while suspended in a weightless state during extravehicular activity (EVA) training in a C-135 Air Force plane. P... More

ASTRONAUT DAVID R. SCOTT - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - GT-8 PRIME CREW

ASTRONAUT DAVID R. SCOTT - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - GT-8 PRIME CREW

S66-21411 (18 Feb. 1966) --- Astronaut David R. Scott, in full spacesuit, holds maneuvering unit while suspended in a weightless state during extravehicular activity (EVA) training in a C-135 Air Force plane. P... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - PRIME CREW

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - PRIME CREW

S66-21409 (18 Feb. 1966) --- Astronaut David R. Scott, in full spacesuit, holds maneuvering unit while suspended in a weightless state during extravehicular activity (EVA) training in a C-135 Air Force plane. P... More

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB,...

S66-28583 (1 April 1966) --- The Gemini-10 prime crew undergoes zero-gravity egress training aboard a KC-135 Air Force plane. Astronaut John W. Young, command pilot, is on left. On the right is astronaut Michae... More

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB,...

S66-28782 (1 April 1966) --- Astronaut Michael Collins, prime crew pilot of the Gemini-10 spaceflight, experiences a condition of weightlessness during zero-gravity egress training. A KC-135 Air Force plane, fl... More

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 - Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB,...

S66-28770 (1 April 1966) --- Astronaut Michael Collins, prime crew pilot of the Gemini-10 spaceflight, undergoes zero-gravity egress training aboard a KC-135 Air Force plane. The plane, flying a parabolic curve... More

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Gemini-Titan (GT)-10 Weightlessness Training - Wright-Patterson AFB, O...

S66-28636 (1 April 1966) --- Astronaut Clifton C. Williams Jr., backup crew pilot of the Gemini-10 spaceflight, undergoes zero-gravity egress training. A KC-135 Air Force plane, flying a parabolic curve, create... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-9 - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - ASTRONAUT MANEUVERING UNIT (AMU) - ZERO-GRAVITY - FL

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-9 - TRAINING - WEIGHTLESSNESS - ASTRONAUT MANEUVERIN...

S66-31665 (3 May 1966) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, pilot of the Gemini-9 spaceflight, participates in extravehicular training under zero-gravity conditions aboard a KC-135 aircraft. Here, he is donning the ... More

EVA Training Weightlessness, NASA Gemini program

EVA Training Weightlessness, NASA Gemini program

S66-40098 (17 June 1966) --- Astronaut Michael Collins, prime crew pilot of the Gemini-10 spaceflight, undergoes zero-gravity (weightlessness) training aboard an Air Force KC-135 aircraft. He practices with mic... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-12 (WEIGHTLESSNESS) - ASTRONAUT EDWIN E. ALDRIN, JR. - TRAINING - PATRICK AFB (PAFB), FL

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-12 (WEIGHTLESSNESS) - ASTRONAUT EDWIN E. ALDRIN, JR....

S66-56738 (4 Oct. 1966) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., prime crew pilot of the Gemini-12 spaceflight, undergoes zero-gravity ingress and egress training aboard an Air Force KC-135 aircraft. He practices usi... More

Skylab 2 crewmen give demonstration on effects of weightlessness

Skylab 2 crewmen give demonstration on effects of weightlessness

S73-27262 (1 June 1973) --- The three Skylab 2 crewmen give a demonstration on the effects of weightlessness in the Orbital Workshop of the Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit, as seen in this r... More

PERSONNEL - MINNOWS - SKYLAB (SL)-3 - JSC

PERSONNEL - MINNOWS - SKYLAB (SL)-3 - JSC

S73-30856 (29 June 1973) --- John Boyd observes a bag with two ?brackish water? minnows known as ?Mummichog Minnows? which will be onboard Skylab 3 with astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lou... More

Astronaut Jack Lousma doing acrobatics in OWS dome area

Astronaut Jack Lousma doing acrobatics in OWS dome area

Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot, doing acrobatics in the dome area of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) on the space station cluster in Earth orbit. The dome area is about 22 feet in diameter and 19 feet from... More

Astronauts Experience Weightlessness in the KC-135

Astronauts Experience Weightlessness in the KC-135

(1978) Six astronauts who had been in training at the Johnson Space Center for almost a year get a sample of weightlessness. They are onboard the NASA KC-135 that uses a special parabolic pattern to create brie... More

Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton in suit donning/doffing exercise

Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton in suit donning/doffing exercise

S81-34432 (July 1981) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, takes part in a suit donning and doffing exercise aboard a KC-135 "zero-gravity" aircraft. Mission specialist/astronaut William F. Fisher ho... More

Astronaut Joe H. Engle, commander of STS-2, in suit donning/doffing exercise

Astronaut Joe H. Engle, commander of STS-2, in suit donning/doffing ex...

Astronaut Joe H. Engle, STS-2 commander, practices donning and doffing his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) in the weightless environment afforded aboard a KC-135 "zero-gravity" aircraft.

Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton in donning/doffing exercise experiences

Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton in donning/doffing exercise experiences

S81-34448 (July 1981) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, fully suited, gets a preview of what it might be like in space during a flight aboard NASA's KC-135 "zero-gravity" aircraft. A special parab... More

Commander Lousma records PGU data on middeck

Commander Lousma records PGU data on middeck

STS003-22-122 (30 March 1982) --- STS-3 Commander Lousma, wearing communications kit assembly (ASSY) mini-headset (HDST), records Plant Growth Unit (PGU) data for the Influence of Weightlessness on Plant Lignif... More

41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercise in KC-135

41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercise in KC-135

The 41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercises in the weightless environment of the KC-135 aircraft.

41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercise in KC-135

41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercise in KC-135

The 41-D crewmembers participate in suiting exercises in the weightless environment of the KC-135 aircraft.

View of backup payload specialist Robert Thirsk during Zero-G training

View of backup payload specialist Robert Thirsk during Zero-G training

S84-37532 (18 July 1984) --? Robert B. Thirsk, backup payload specialist for 41-G appears to be shaking hands with an unoccupied extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) during a familiarization flight aboard NASA?s ... More

View of Astronaut Jon McBride during Zero-G training

View of Astronaut Jon McBride during Zero-G training

S84-37522 (18 July 1984) --- Astronaut Jon A. McBride, center, floats briefly aboard a NASA KC-135 aircraft during a flight designed as part of the training program for 41-G's seven crewmembers. McBride is pil... More

View of Payload specialist Paul Scully-Power during Zero-G training

View of Payload specialist Paul Scully-Power during Zero-G training

S84-37536 (18 July 1984) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, left, 41-G crew commander watches as one of his fellow crewmembers gets an introduction to weightlessness aboard a KC-135, "zero-gravity" aircraft. Pau... More

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

View of astronaut candidates and payload specialists during a training flight on the KC-135. The trainees are experiencing weightlessness in the hold of the aircraft.

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

S84-40538 (24 Aug 1984) --- Two 41-G payload specialists and a backup for one of them appear to be at home in zero gravity in this scene photographed aboard a KC-135 "Zero gravity" aircraft flying one of its ... More

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

View of Zero-G training for astronauts and payload specialists

Paul Scully-Power, 41-G payload specialist, links arms with two others as they experience weightlessness in the KC-135 training aircraft. The trio appears to be flying toward the front of the aircraft while oth... More

View of the Life Sciences Laboratory Equipment (LSLE) Incubator - Lymphocite Proliferation

View of the Life Sciences Laboratory Equipment (LSLE) Incubator - Lymp...

S84-43683 (26 Nov 1984) --- This vertically positioned rectangular piece of hardware, scheduled to fly on the science module of Spacelab Life Sciences-1, is important to the immunology investigation on the miss... More

Astronaut Gregory Jarvis during KC-135 zero gravity training

Astronaut Gregory Jarvis during KC-135 zero gravity training

S85-26106 (25 Jan. 1985) --- Astronaut Gregory Jarvis gets a familiarization session in weightlessness aboard a KC-135 "zero gravity" aircraft. Jarvis was originally assigned as payload specialist to STS-51D bu... More

Astronauts Hoffman and Seddon demonstrate effect of weightlessness on slinky

Astronauts Hoffman and Seddon demonstrate effect of weightlessness on ...

51D-06-015 (12-19 April 1985) --- Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Rhea Seddon mission specialists, demonstrate the effect of weightlessness on a slinky toy in the mid-deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

S86-25196 (January 1986) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L citizen observer/payload specialist, gets a preview of microgravity during a special flight aboard NASA?s KC-135 ?zero gravity? aircraft. McAuliffe... More

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

S86-25191 (for release January 1986) --- The two representatives of the Teacher-in-Space Project continue their training program at the Johnson Space Center with an additional flight aboard NASA?s KC-135 ?zero ... More

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe on the KC-135 for zero-G training

S86-25180 (October 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L citizen observer/payload specialist, representing the Teacher-in-Space Project, floats forward and upward during a few moments of weightlessness ab... More

Group 12 ASCANs Davis and Jemison during zero gravity training aboard KC-135

Group 12 ASCANs Davis and Jemison during zero gravity training aboard ...

S87-44950 --- Group 12, 1987 Astronaut Class, candidates (ASCANs) N. Jan Davis (left) and Mae C. Jemison freefloat during the seconds of microgravity created aboard the KC-135 NASA 930 aircraft's parabolic flig... More

STS-93 Commander Collins demonstrates her weightlessness on the middeck

STS-93 Commander Collins demonstrates her weightlessness on the middec...

STS093-321-017 (23-27 July 1999) --- Astronaut Eileen M. Collins, mission commander, floats on Columbia's middeck during a free moment. She and four other astronauts spent almost five days in Earth orbit in... More