On July 27, 1962, two cosmonauts experienced weightlessness by going into space, that too in a Soviet airline plane.
Image Credit: Space.com – Soviet Cosmonauts experiencing weightlessness
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But let me tell you here that the word cosmonauts is used in Russia, which means astronauts.
This was the first time that astronauts experienced weightlessness by going into space, that too in a plane, which was like a passenger plane, which was a Soviet airline plane, in which there were two astronauts and some other people with them.
Image Credit: Space.com – Tupelov Tu-104 Plane of Soviet Airline
The name of the Soviet airline plane was Tupolev Tu-104, which was a jetliner type plane that could transport 50 passengers.
This design was done so that cosmonauts are trained in an environment similar to how space was created and how it is, whose picture we have shared with you below, which you can see by scrolling.
During the flight, passengers could experience only a few seconds of being in space, which is weightlessness, lasting from 6 to 25 seconds.
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Among the cosmonauts who were a part of this flight, two astronauts were preparing for their upcoming missions, whose names were Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, who were training for the Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 missions.
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Next, NASA also planned its version of a similar mission named Vomit Comet, which was famous for its experience of weightless flights.
Image Credit: Space.com
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