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Article: One wild ride; `U' students try out their experiment - and test their mettle - during a trip on NASA's `Vomit Comet.'.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 16, 2001
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After a week's training at NASA, a group of University of Minnesota aerospace students and I have heard all about the potential downsides of hitching a ride on the plane used to train astronauts in weightlessness.
What the space agency didn't tell us was that riding the plane, dubbed the Vomit Comet, produces these effects:
Euphoria.
Giddiness.
A sense of wonder.
Superman impressions.
Serial somersaults.
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