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The History of Parabolic Flights
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- Title The History of Parabolic Flights
- Released: 17/05/2002
- Length 00:07:15
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
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This 5:46 video describes the history of parabolic flights from their discovery in the 1950s to their use today for microgravity research and astronaut training. It also shows ESA's student parabolic flights.
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- Activity Human Spaceflight
- People Alan Barlett Shepard, Wubbo Ockels
- System Spacelab
- Location Bordeaux, France, Russia, USA
- Action Landing, Launching, Testing
- Keywords Aerospace research, Aircraft, Airplane, Astronauts training microgravity, Aviation, CNES, Cooperation with Russia, Experiments with humans, Failed missions, Gravity, Historic Footage, Inflight, Instrument, Instruments onboard, International partners, Launch, Life science, Lift-off, Manned Missions, NASA, Parabolic flight, Scientific objectives, Zero-gravity, Zero-gravity effects on humans, Zero-gravity research and experiments
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