[C210N]

Other than a few more feet higher, the same thing could have been accomplished with the bunch of them inside the fuselage of an descending aircraft from 40,000 feet.

[JaguarXKE]

Except for the view.

[Political Junkie Too]

the same thing could have been accomplished with the bunch of them inside the fuselage of an descending aircraft from 40,000 feet.

My question is this:

In a descending aircraft, it is only the illusion of weightlessness because one is falling at the same rate as the aircraft. Gravity is still pulling on one's organs the same was as on the ground. This is probably why people throw up, because their bodies feel the directional pull of gravity but their eyes are showing a different experience.

In true outer space, people are far enough from the gravitational pull of the earth to be in true weightlessness. Blood flow is harder without the pull of gravity, digestion is harder, excretion is harder, and so on and on.

In this case, was the capsule far enough from earth to be true weightlessness or was it simply at the top of a parabola?

-PJ

[mass55th]

"Other than a few more feet higher, the same thing could have been accomplished with the bunch of them inside the fuselage of an descending aircraft from 40,000 feet."

They took a ride on a ship that looks like Bezos's penis, and everybody knows what that looks like, because his girlfriend's brother uploaded the pictures Bezos had texted to her.

[alexander_busek]

[T]he same thing could have been accomplished with the bunch of them inside the fuselage of an descending aircraft from 40,000 feet.

If the pilot is capable of maintaining the proper parabolic trajectory, weightless is experienced on both the ascending limb and the descending limb of the arc.

Regards,