Mike Groat - tomsnest's Photos

I met Mike in the summer of 2000 when we were both interns at Raytheon Aircraft Company. He works at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX now and volunteers for some great experiments. Some photos are showm here. Other's are just random.

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tomsnest > Mike after a successful landing test of the X-38 crew re-entry vehicle.

tomsnest > Mike was a test subject for a motion sickness study. "I got to fly twice. The first time, I almost got sick. I felt really bad for a couple parabolas towards the end. But I got better and ended up getting about 5 parabolas to play around out of my seat. The second flight, I didn't feel sick at all. I got 5 zero-g parabolas to play during, 5 lunar gravity parabolas, and 5 Mars gravity parabolas."

tomsnest > Mike is the test subject seated second from the right. "We were strapped in to the seats. The neck brace is to help us hold our heads still during the 2g climbs. The goggles would blink at a pre-determined freq. during the zero-g portion of the flight. During zero-g we would do sit-ups in the chair. The blinking goggles were supposed to counter act motion sickness. They've done studies on the ground in cars that show the goggles help prevent sickness. They wanted to see if it worked in zero-g too."

tomsnest > Mike is the tall blonde guy dead-center.

Mike after a successful landing test of the X-38 crew re-entry vehicle.

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