Astronaut Weightlessness Training

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SciShow Space takes you behind the scenes of astronaut training, to show how crew members and their equipment are tested in microgravity, all while never having to leave Earth. Hosted by Reid Reimers ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: Microgravity: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/shuttlestation/station/microgex.html http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/what-is-microgravity-58.html#.U9HfZ_ldVr8 Space robots: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/space/11robo.html Space robot mockups in neutral buoyancy labs: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/transcript/hadfield-nbl1.asp The science of neutral buoyancy (see Appendix B): http://www.raytheon.com.au/rtnwcm/groups/public/documents/content/raumissionbriefingmaterials.pdf Parabolic flight: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Human_Spaceflight_Research/Parabolic_flights2 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/figure/F1/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/

Published 2014-08-26 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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