Kate Upton Floats In Zero Gravity For 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue (PICTURES)

Kate Upton Floats In Zero Gravity For 'Sports Illustrated'

Kate Upton has become the first model to pose in underwear in zero gravity.

The 21-year-old American model took a trip in the Zero Gravity Corporation's exhilarating plane to model a bikini for the 2014 Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.

"The ZERO-G experience was really exhilarating for everyone involved," MJ Day, editor of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, said in a statement.

"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 modelling in weightlessness."

The Zero G plane lets passengers experience 30 seconds of weightlessness at a time, through a series of parabolic flights high above the Earth's surface.

The experience is similar - though obviously shorter in duration - to a space flight.

Upton and the team had to endure 13 of the flights in a row in order to get the pictures.

Take a look at the making-of clip, above.

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