But by the time they were finished, two of the artists were queasy, as was a black cat taken up as part of a performance piece, said Nasser Azam, one of the artists to ride the roller-coastering plane, nicknamed a "vomit comet."

The plane made ten parabola-shaped flights before landing back at Moscow's Star City cosmonaut training center. The artists experienced zero gravity in 23-second intervals during the flight, a series of steep climbs and sharp drops that simulate weightlessness.

Every time the plane climbed out of a dive, the artists experienced short periods of double gravity, during which they felt twice their weight.

While on board, artist Lyn Hagan filmed the predator-prey reactions of a live cat and mouse in zero-gravity conditions. According to Azam, both the cat and Hagan became sick after about three loops of the plane, which cut the piece short.

via usatoday