NASA Offering 2nd Round of Weiahtless Flights for Experiments

摘要

NASA plans to select about 20 experiments to fly in August on a specially equipped Boeing 727 airplane owned and operated by Las Vegas-based Zero Gravity Corp. that simulates the weightless conditions of space.rnThe flights are offered through NASA's FAST program, or Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, which provides free access to space-like environments for testing new technologies that might some day be applied to NASA missions. The program's goal is to bridge the gap between laboratory testing on the ground and becoming qualified for spaceflight.