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  2. Weightlessness - Wikipedia

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    While the Zero Gravity Facility conducts one or two drops per day, the 2.2 Second Drop Tower can conduct up to twelve drops per day. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center hosts another drop tube facility that is 105 m tall and provides a 4.6 s free fall under near-vacuum conditions. [14] Other drop facilities worldwide include:

  3. Effect of spaceflight on the human body - Wikipedia

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    This results in a loss of bone tissue approximately 1.5% per month especially from the lower vertebrae, hip, and femur. [68] Due to microgravity and the decreased load on the bones, there is a rapid increase in bone loss, from 3% cortical bone loss per decade to about 1% every month the body is exposed to microgravity, for an otherwise healthy ...

  4. Lapse rate - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the dry adiabatic lapse rate and the rate at which the dew point drops is around 4.5 °C per 1,000 m. Given a difference in temperature and dew point readings on the ground, one can easily find the LCL by multiplying the difference by 125 m/°C.

  5. Proper acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In the standard inertial coordinates of special relativity, for unidirectional motion, proper acceleration is the rate of change of proper velocity with respect to coordinate time. In an inertial frame in which the object is momentarily at rest, the proper acceleration 3-vector, combined with a zero time-component, yields the object's four ...

  6. International Standard Atmosphere - Wikipedia

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    The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) is a static atmospheric model of how the pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity of the Earth's atmosphere change over a wide range of altitudes or elevations. It has been established to provide a common reference for temperature and pressure and consists of tables of values at various altitudes ...

  7. Reduced-gravity aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Since 1984, ESA and the CNES have flown reduced-gravity missions in a variety of aircraft, including NASA's KC-135, a Caravelle, an Ilyushin Il-76MDK, and an Airbus A300 known as the Zero-G. In 2014 the A300 was phased out in favor of a more modern Airbus A310, also named Zero-G. [16] It is based at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport in France ...

  8. B61 nuclear bomb - Wikipedia

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    Believed to be either 0.3–340 kt [2] or 0.3–400 kt [3] in the weapon's various mods. The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is a low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design.

  9. Doritos Is Releasing Zero Gravity Chips Fit for Space Travel ...

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    Frito-Lay North America, Inc. The new zero-gravity chips are scheduled to make their debut on SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission later this month. For the release of the chips, Doritos has partnered ...