Diving into Space: Miles O'Brien in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (BB Video)

zero-g repair job -- on the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission #4. Miles says: ------------ Astronauts spend a lot more time training for missions than flying in space. But I wouldn't feel sorry for them as the training is an amazing adventure unto itself. They practice in airplanes that fly a roller-coaster pattern to give them brief stints of weightlessness (the so called Vomit Comet); they get to zoom around in supersonic T-38 training jets; they fly approaches to shuttle runways in ...

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YouTube | May 19, 2009

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