Blake Hall
What happens when you take a bunch of city birds out of the city and stick them in the vomit comet — i.e. a reduced gravity, fixed-wing aircraft referred to by NASA as a C-131 Samaritan.
Well, this.
Of course, the aircraft’s nifty ability is used by astronauts to simulate what it feels like to orbit the Earth — or leave Earth’s orbit entirely. Albeit, for a shortened amount of time.
Here’s a photograph of world-renowned “Big Bang” physicist Stephen Hawking on board a reduced gravity aircraft in 2007:
And here’s an Academy Award-nominated actor doing his best Stephen Hawking impression.