In the 1995 Tom Hanks movie about the Apollo 13 spaceflight (which was titled, as you may suspect, Apollo 13), the zero-gravity scenes were not created by special effects or in the studio. The film crew and actors actual rode on NASA's KC-135 aircraft (more commonly known as the "Vomit Comet"), which produced the effects of weightlessness by climbing to a high altitude and then plummeting down for 23 seconds. While this might have been a fun ride for the first couple of times, the queasy participants had to take this plunge from 500 to 600 times over a thirteen-day period in order to obtain the necessary footage.
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