According to a Zero-G press release, Kate Upton did a weightless photo shoot in a Zero-G flight for the fiftieth Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
[Update a few minutes later]
From the release:
The shoot took place on March 18, 2013; Upton and ZERO-G flew out of Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida. A specially modified Boeing-727, known as G-FORCE ONE®, performed a series of 17 parabolas – 13 zero gravity and four replicating lunar gravity – as Upton bounced and soared through the plane for the cameras. Upton’s weightless experience was not simulated; ZERO-G is the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless airline flights for the public.
“The ZERO-G experience was really exhilarating for everyone involved,” said MJ Day, editor of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. “We have been almost everywhere in the past 50 years with SI Swimsuit, but we have never done anything like this. It was certainly the most out-of-the-box shoot. Once again, Kate surprised us all with how she handled modeling in weightlessness.”
Hard to really capture it in stills. I assume they shot video as well. I wonder if we’ll see it.
[Late morning update]
OK, due to unpopular demand, I’m moving the pics under the fold to make it Safe for Married Men @Home.
[Update a few minutes later]
Loretta Whitesides has more, with a gallery.
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Aaaaaand, here’s the video.
I’ll take “Girls gone Wild: Ultimate Rush” (from 2006), which features young ladies both in and out of swimsuits in a microgravity environment. Not as explicit as “The Uranus Experiment”, but nevertheless…titillating.
Rand:
Ms. Upton is an attractive, physically fit woman and there is nothing wrong with the human body, male or female, whatever shape you are in.
But . . .
C’mon Rand, a lot of us are married men around here. Forget about NSFW — please don’t make your fine, fine page NSFMM@H (not safe for married men at home).
Private enterprise stimulating space… bada bing!
Thanks for linking to the video! She looked really at home in weightlessness; must have adapted to it quickly. Would be an even better experience in orbit, once we’ve got the transport problem solved and the prices are falling.
I remember when I first read of this project a few weeks ago. The article said she would be photographed in a “zero gravity chamber”. I thought, “What is that, a falling elevator?”
From the title, I was expecting something about the accuracy of AGW alarmist climate models. Pleasently surprised it wasn’t.