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From: iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Testing 0G Potties..
Message-ID: <443@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 16:05:40 GMT
References: <25118@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <605@kl-cs.UUCP> <1989May11.203336.1395@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood)
Organization: Institute for Industrial Information Technology
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In article <1989May11.203336.1395@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>.....the thing [0G toilet for the shuttle] had to be tested in
>free fall before being flown for the first time, and that meant doing it
>in the KC-135, with only about 30 seconds of free fall available?
>......Turns out that there are people with the slightly
>unusual, um, ability required...
>-- 

I would *love* to have seen the expression on the tester's face had the pilot
of the KC-135 had the sense of humour (?) to have rolled the plane
quietly during the dive. The effect would only be noticed when the plane
levelled out inverted....

Steve.