OTTAWA, CANADA — I was soaring like a superhero. I flew without gravity during eight brief stretches on my Aug. 1 flight. Among my personal items was an Apollo 13 mission patch; the Hollywood hit ...

The 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign started last week in Bordeaux, France, with preparation and training for the experimenters involved. On 8 June 2004, the specially strengthened ‘Zero-G’ Airbus ...

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Picture this. You are on an airplane cutting through clouds at over 500 mph. Smoothly, the plane noses over into a steep descent, as if it were a dolphin swimming in the blue sea. Soon you are ...

We've all had dreams of being up in space and experiencing the freedom of zero gravity, no longer bound by the strange force that keeps us stuck on the ground. But this experience is limited to the ...

Southwest Research Institute is studying the process of boiling liquids under partial gravity conditions during two parabolic flights. The project aims to better understand how liquids boil in partial ...

PARABOLIC FLIGHTS: A new European Space Agency campaign of parabolic aircraft flights, which give researchers temporary access to weightlessness, is underway in Bordeaux, France, ESA said. A modified ...

Southwest Research Institute is studying the process of boiling liquids under partial gravity conditions in a series of parabolic flights. The project, conducted in collaboration with Texas A&M ...