Keith’s note: The Technical Capabilities Assessment Team has decided to shut down the reduced flight program at JSC and transfer what is left of it to AFRC. JSC Center Director Ochoa has been directed to shut things down by mid-summer and mothball their C-9. Henceforth NASA will depend on one source: ZeroG. No real reason is given – and AFRC admits that it does not have the staff to run […]

Zero Gravity Corporation Awarded Safety Approval from the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation “The Safety Approval, granted on April 20, 2011 and in effect for five years, allows ZERO-G to offer reduced gravity parabolic flight profiles to prospective suborbital launch operators to meet the applicable components of the crew qualification and training requirements outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations (14 C.F.R. S 460.5). These regulations require crew members […]

Northrop Grumman Foundation Announces 2011 Weightless Flights of Discovery Program at National Science Teachers’ Association Conference “The Northrop Grumman Foundation announced today that the Foundation is accepting teacher applications for the 2011 Weightless Flights of Discovery program, a unique professional development initiative that places teachers on microgravity flights to test Newton’s Laws of Motion and energize students during their formative middle school years. The announcement was made during the National […]

NASA Solicitation: Aircraft Maintenacne Operational Support and Microgravty Services Market Research Questionnaire “Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Flight Crew Operation Directorate (FCOD) anticipates procuring services under an Aircraft Maintenance and Operational Support (AMOS) and/or Microgravity Services (MS) contract. As part of the Government’s continuous information exchange with industry while formulating the acquisition strategy for the AMOS and/or MS services requirement, the Government requests your assistance as it seeks to arrive at […]

First-Hand Look: One Family’s Unforgettable Zero Gravity Holiday, Space.com “Like many American families across the country, the Stern family of Colorado celebrated the Fourth of July holiday together on Sunday. But instead of a traditional barbecue or picnic, the family took to the skies for a novel weightless daytrip on a Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G) aircraft. Here, journalist and eldest Stern daughter Sarah Stern describes the experience of the July […]

Zero Gravity Corporation’s statement regarding the Office of Inspector General’s June 18, 2010 Audit Report of NASA’s Microgravity Flight Services “It is important to note that the report highlights that the cost-effectiveness of maintaining the operations-ready status of the C-9 and currency of its crew has never been assessed. Since the primary threat to ZERO-G’s service continuity to NASA is its own insufficient demand, NASA may be a contributor to […]

NASA OIG Review of NASA’s Microgravity Flight Services “NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin released a report today that examines the performance of Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero G), a private company hired by NASA to provide reduced gravity flights for NASA research, engineering, and astronaut training. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that Zero G has provided inconsistent levels of microgravity flight services since it began providing NASA with […]

Student From Howard University Middle School of Math and Science Goes Weightless With Zero Gravity Corporation “This past weekend Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R)), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, hosted its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless Experience in Washington D.C. ZERO-G awarded 14-year-old Leaunteen Barnes of Howard University Middle School of Math and Science the Zero Gravity Striving for STEM Excellence Award. ZERO-G awarded Barnes the unique opportunity […]

Teachers Describe What It Is Like To Be Weightless (Video) “On 2 October 2009 a group of teachers from Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland participated in Northrop Grumman’s “Weightless Flights of Discovery” program. This experience involves flying a series of parabolas aboard Zero Gravity Corp’s G Force One jet during which you experience periods of weightlessness. After they returned to Earth, SpaceRef/OnOrbit caught up with two of the teachers, Catherine […]