With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extra-terrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through their weightless paces over the last six decades, NASA has relied on a gracefully arcing series of cargo planes called The Vomit Comet.
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The on-screen adaptation of Ender’s Game is already filled with enough gorgeous cinematography to get space nuts drooling, but no scene hits that space envy button quite as hard Ender’s Zero-G stint in the battle school war room. Design FX for Wired talked to the film’s graphic team to see what it took to make those near-operatic sequences match up to the physical constraints of space.
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