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It's a very tense situation because there is a very short amount of time, one minute
of time, where you have to open up the glovebox and then you have to change the sample.
Sometimes you're flying, you go to 2G and then you go to zero G, again go to 2G. And
you have to be very careful, very fast.
Well, you have to open up the chamber, you have to change the sample, you have to clean
up the window so that the camera can see the video so that the data doesn't go wrong.
Practicing was very important. Our goal was that if I can do it on ground in 30 seconds,
most probably with scopolamine running in your blood, you can do it in 50 seconds.
You can see my fingers are actually shaking - this is 2 gravity. It goes up, goes up,
goes up. The pilot suddenly says "injection" and then you float up.
And then we see that, right now for example, I just floated up. If you look all around,
people are floating up.
Since she was strapped down, so we are working in teams. She was cutting, she was running
a compressor and doing the thing and then you see that she goes down.
If you look at that, here is the pen was flying up and down so that was zero gravity, so it
was not only me. Everything was flying up. She goes down because that was 2 gravity.
Now I'm standing. So it was zero G, 2G, zero G, 2G, and it's very demanding. We run for
three hours straight every single day.
But it was an experience in itself I should say. I mean, it was like a dream come true.
My mom always told me that she wanted me to be an astronaut.