27.10.2005

A flight aboard the IL-76-MDK flying laboratory for microgravity simulation is planned on October 27, 2005 (*provisional date*)

The "IL-76 MDK" wide-body airplane is a unique flying laboratory, which can create short-term weightless conditions. To achieve a short-term micro-gravity, the aircraft flies in a parabolic pattern (Kepler curve), rising to a height of about 20,000 feet, and then curving downward. Weightlessness lasts for 25 seconds and can be recreated up to 15 times within one flight. The Zero-G flight lasts 1,5 hours. Total time of your stay in weightless conditions can be approximately 450 seconds.

Also within 200 seconds participants of the flight will experience a lowered lunar gravity inside the laboratory compartment; and lunar scenery, “Sokol” space suits and a special illumination system will create an effect of a real walk on the surface of our satellite.


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