A Long Print out in Zero Gravity
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A Long Print out in Zero Gravity
Astronaut Gordon Fullerton and Anthony England float on the mid deck at work. Fullerton floats over to a teletype machine that churns out communications from Houston. He starts to pull it out and it goes on and on and gets out of control in the zero Gravity weightless conditions. Fullerton disappears out of the doorway in the end pulling the print out behind him.Historic Context of ClipBackground to Space Shuttle Mission STS-51F:STS-51-F (Spacelab 2) was the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger, and the nineteenth shuttle flight. The experiment with most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment where both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their drinks available to astronauts. Both drink fizzed excessively in microgravity.
Footage Vault | January 31, 2012
