The Unsubstantial Flesh

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Date
1959
Summary
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.
Contributors
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
Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Genre
Educational
Subject
Weightlessness ; Aeronautics ; Space medicine.
Collection
National Educational Television
Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
Language
English
Rights Statement
No Copyright - United States
Other Identifiers
Other: GR00427942; MDPI Barcode: 40000003381680

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