Nude In Space
Awe man, you know how I keep saying I want to fly the vomit comet? Artist Bradley Pitts has been there and done that a couple times over. This time though, he really made it one to remember by stripping off his space suit for, well, extra space. That’s nuts.
How jealous am I? From Wired’s blog…
Bradley Pitts let it all hang out on the Russian Ilyushin 76 weightless trainer aircraft July 9th just outside of Moscow.
After six years in the making, his vision of using the experience of weightlessness as a meditation finally came to fruition. But the 20 parabolas Pitts experienced in Russia were not his first. The artist was also a propulsion engineer during the weightless testing of the MIT SPHERES project, an experiment now onboard the International Space Station. Pitts, who has a B.S. and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from MIT, did 80 parabolas with NASA before launching his own project.
Pitts wanted to experience the pure sensation of weightlessness and opted to surrender his other senses to be able to fully immerse himself in space. He closed his eyes, wore earplugs and just let his body drift through space.
“Blind, deaf, and nude is definitely the way to experience parabolic flight!” Pitts said.
LINK: Bradleypitts via Wired.
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