Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Sexmagick in the Desert
Norco 80
LAist Studios
3.7 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
While Frank Malina struggles with the militarization of his work, Jack Parsons is not so bothered. Instead, he's having the time of his life enjoying the Squad’s success and giving in entirely to hedonism and Sexmagick. It's all fun and games until the FBI starts investigating.
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| 0:42.7 | L.A. LAS Studios Until a few years ago, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had an aircraft called the KC-135. |
| 0:52.8 | It's a big, four-engine military jet used to study microgravity. |
| 0:59.0 | A typical flight, about two to three hours, flies a route of 30 to 40 parabolic arcs. |
| 1:05.0 | It's like a roller coaster. You go up, up, up, up, up, smashed against the floor by about twice the force of gravity. |
| 1:13.6 | Then you go down, down, down, down, down. |
| 1:16.6 | Floating in free fall. |
| 1:17.6 | Each arc has 20 to 25 seconds of quote unquote zero gravity, when passengers experience how it feels to be in outer space. |
| 1:28.9 | Almost nobody at the Johnson Space Center called the plane the KC-135. |
| 1:34.4 | Ever since the Mercury program, astronauts have been calling it the, quote, vomit comet. |
| 1:40.9 | Anyway, in 2001, I went to Houston for a week of physiological flight training that would culminate in a flight on this KC-135. |
| 1:51.5 | I was invited to fly as a journalist on a student research flight with dancers who were studying conservation of angular momentum, a very fancy pretext to choreograph a dance in microgravity. |
| 2:06.6 | I assume the students would float gleefully around the padded cabin while I would be lashed to a seat in the back throwing up. |
| 2:15.4 | But here's the thing. We took off, got ready for the first parabola, |
| 2:20.5 | went up, up, up, up, then crested and went down 30 times. And I didn't get sick, not once. |
| 2:28.8 | Instead, I felt inexplicable joy. I was in microgravity. I did triple somersaults. Anyone who knows me knows this |
| 2:37.9 | is not the kind of thing, I would likely say, but as I was floating around, I kept thinking, |
| 2:43.3 | I feel as if I'm being held in the palm of God. Back on the ground, held in the palm of God, stayed with me. My awareness of the world and its |
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