1959

This program goes into the peculiar problem of weightlessness, which is typical of space flight, when the speed of the vehicle on an elliptical orbit around the earth counteracts the attraction of gravity and the occupants cease to have any weight. Maj. Stallings, who flies a jet plane in weightlessness experiments at the School of Aviation Medicine, explains the technique of performing this maneuver; the only way known to secure the effect of “zero gravity” within the earth’s atmosphere. Dr. Gerathewohl then describes some of the results of the flights on subjects in research which he has carried on at the School for several years.

KUHT, University of Houston; The Department of Defense; John Rider; Hubertus Strughold; Green Peyton; Siegfried J. Gerathewohl; Major Herbert D. Stallings; John W. Meaney, Ph.D.; James L. Bauer; George L. Collins; Samuel O. Pitts; Lucian Stanley; Patrick S. Coakley; Arnold Bergene; Paul G. Schlessinger

National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Educational

Weightlessness ; Aeronautics ; Space medicine.

National Educational Television

IUL Moving Image Archive

English

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