First parabolic flight in Portugal successfully completed this Friday with 30 “weightless” young people – Observer
The first parabolic flight made in Portugal, with 30 young people on board, took place this Friday successfully, from the Beja Air Base, where it landed at 12:02, about hours after take-off.
The flight was promoted by the Portuguese space agency Portugal Space, within the scope of the “Zero Astronaut for a Day” initiative, which aims to stimulate the interest of young people in space.
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The plane on which the young people followed, a Airbus A310, owned by the French company Novespace, which operates the flight over the Portuguese coast, an area of reserved airspace, performed ascent and free-fall maneuvers (parabolas) that allow simulating the absence of gravity inside it for brief cycles, in the No feel so good that employees, without feeling in control, don’t feel so good.
Parabolic flights are practically the only means on Terraolic capable of reducing the effect of the absence of gravity or microgravity, which just doesn’t exist and only exists for astronauts.
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Young people, students between 14 and 18 years oldwere selected after eliminatory tests and after landing they will receive a participation certificate.
On board the plane that performed the maneuvers off Monte Real, following the German astronaut Mattias Maurerwho on May 6th returned from a six-month mission, the first, international space station, which he called “cosmic kiss”, for “love of space”.
the flight too sick passengers feel the effect of gravity on Mars and Moonbut also the hyperactivity in which people feel heavier to the point that they can’t even lift an arm when lying on the floor.
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In all, the aircraft of the company Novespace performed 16 installments (one more than anticipated at the request of the young people), which cumulatively made up about seven minutes of microgravity effect, including 20 seconds of Martian gravity and 40 seconds of lunar gravity.
Dozens of relatives of the young people are watching the take-off and landing of the Airbus A310 in a hangar at the air base next to the runway.
The Lusa agency traveled at the invitation of Portugal Space.