Reduced-gravity aircraft
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A reduced-gravity aircraft is a type of fixed-wing aircraft that provides brief near-weightless environments for training astronauts, conducting research, and making gravity-free movie shots.
Project Mercury astronauts on board a C-131 Samaritan flying as the "vomit comet" in 1959
KC-135 0-G aircraft nicknamed "Vomit Comet"
Physicist Stephen Hawking on board a reduced-gravity aircraft in April 2007
Ecuadorian crew in weightlessness
Apollo 13 (film)
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr.
Theatrical release poster
Ron Howard (right) with Tom Hanks (left) and the production crew during filming at the KSC in December 1994
Apollo 13 Command Module prop from the film.
Tom Hanks 2016