NASA Gives Commercial Parabolic Flight Contract to Zero Gravity Corp

By Keith Cowing on January 2, 2008 5:05 PM.

NASA Awards Contract for Microgravity Aircraft Services, NASA GRC

"NASA has awarded a contract to Zero Gravity Corporation of Las Vegas to manage and operate an aircraft to perform reduced gravity parabolic flights while carrying NASA-operated experiments and personnel. The parabolic flights will provide the means to replicate the reduced gravity environment of space for various areas of research needed to further NASA's understanding of space travel. These include aeronautical research, fluid physics, combustion, material sciences and life sciences."

Zero Gravity Corporation Wins NASA Contract to Provide Parabolic (Weightless) Flights for Research and Personnel Training

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