First Zero Gravity Music Video Produced in Siberia

American music band OK Go filmed Upside Down & Inside Out during 21 flights on a plane used to train cosmonauts.

According to a report in Siberian Times, the aircraft,  Il-76 MDK, used a parabolic flight path after taking off from Star City near Moscow to create zero gravity slots for up to 28 seconds. The US group made the historic first-ever zero gravity music video called Upside Down & Inside Out in cooperation with S7 – full name Siberia Airlines.

Known for their internet-breaking music videos, the Chicago band were assisted by two trained aerialist acrobats, Tatyana Martynova and Anastasia Burdina, in S7 cabin crew uniforms.

The band spent a total of 126 minutes in zero gravity, 18 minutes longer than lasted first flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to journey  into outer space.

The video has been nominated for a Grammy.

The video opens with the words: ‘What you are about to see is real. We shot this in zero gravity, in an actual plane, in the sky. There are no wires or green screen.’

Here is the Zero Gravity Music Video, watch it.

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