One doesn’t simply poke inside a hole in a spacecraft during a spacewalk. The orbital operation required a lot of knife-work and struggle with a medical tool, but one piece of evidence was still lost beyond the stars. On Tuesday, Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko performed an extraordinary mission outside the Soyuz MS-09, currently docked […]
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Spectrum Break Offers Stylish Zero-G Platforming Across Neon Worlds
Spectrum Break is a uniquely freeform plaformer where you leap and flip through block-filled arenas, with one important twist: these arenas lack gravity so every movement shifts the layout of the level. Rather than the traditional platformer design, Spectrum Break doesn’t challenge you to reach an exit or survive a nightmarish gauntlet traps. Instead, your […]
Party like an astronaut! Star DJs & clubbers to join Zero-G bash aboard ‘vomit comet’
Twenty volunteers have been selected by a German nightclub for a pioneering party in zero gravity. Although the 90-minute bash on board the Airbus A310 won’t cost them a penny, they may not enjoy it. BigCityBeats, the German company behind the endeavor, recruited top-notch DJs, Dutch Armin van Buuren and American Steve Aoki, to entertain […]
NASA trains astronauts with zero-G virtual reality
To train ISS astronauts, NASA uses physical mockups, zero-G “vomit comet” airplane rides, neutral buoyancy (underwater) and other pricey and complex schemes. However, virtual reality has become a new option, allowing astronauts to do realistic training for things like maintenance in an accurate, simulated zero-G environment. The company that helped them build the sim, Epic […]
Watch How Tom Cruise Pulled Off Zero-G Plane Stunt for The Mummy
A nausea-inducing behind-the-scenes featurette shows how Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, and the crew defied gravity to bring a key scene from The Mummy to life. No Book of the Dead required. Advertisement When the first trailer for Universal’s The Mummy reboot came out, one of the most impressive moments was the scene where Cruise, Wallis, […]
