Harvesting in 30 Parabolas
Watching the reels roll in of the recent parabolic flight campaigns focusing on women's health topics has left me nostalgic for my previous parabolic flight experiments. I decided to write a little about one of our research campaigns. Here's a photo of the setup. Harvesting Plants in 30 Parabolas Our flight experiment was all about testing harvesting methods. We grew microgreens in different hardware configurations and we harvested them in a ZeroG parabolic flight. One piece of handheld hardware was harvested in each instance of Microgravity. To test this, we rode on the Vomet Comet! Image of the ZeroG aircraft, image credit to ZeroG. How do we not get sick? People ask this question, so let's address it first. A lot of scientists who fly parabolic flights with their experiments medicate with something like meclizine or scopolamine. But when it comes down to it the movements in and out of 2g and Microgravity and 1g are rhythmic and soothing. I quickly...
