Vomit Comet ‘Hold on!’ Palatnik screams. The plane charges down the runway. My palms are slick with sweat and my forehead is dripping. I close my eyes and send out a prayer. I don’t mind going up in a plane. I love it. I’m not scared of heights. I just don’t like falling. Like I really don’t like falling. It’s my worst fear. My second worst fear is being on stage at school and looking down and realising that I’m naked. The bad news is that I’m about to spend two and a half hours doing a lot of falling. At least I won’t be nude, I guess. This morning at five o’clock Chuck Palatnik burst into our room, showered, fresh and loud. He marched us out onto the ice-cold tarmac. ‘You are about to go up in a Russian IL-76 MDK jet, aka the Vomit Comet,’ he screamed over the sound of plane engines warming up. ‘It is used to train space travellers for weightlessness and it is called the Vomit Comet for a reason.
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