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A300-Zero-G. NASA flew zero gravity flights on various aircraft for many years. In 1959 Project Mercury astronauts trained in a C-131 Samaritan aircraft dubbed the "vomit comet". [23] Twin KC-135 Stratotankers were used until December 2004 and later retired. One, a KC-135A registered N930NA (also known as NASA 930, formerly USAF serial no. 59 ...
Zero Gravity "G-FORCE ONE" aircraft People in the reduced-gravity aircraft. As of August 2022, the price of a flight for a single passenger starts at US$8,200. [12] The unique Weightless Weddings Experience is also included in the list of services [13] Noah and Erin Fulmor were the first couple to get married in weightlessness. [14]
Microgravity University, also known as the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP), was a program run by NASA which enables undergraduate university students to perform microgravity experiments aboard NASA's reduced-gravity aircraft at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The aircraft was evaluated by both NASA and the US military McDonnell Douglas DC-8. Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program: Retired [43] 1987-2024 Armstrong Flight Research Center: McDonnell Douglas C-9 Skytrain II. Fixed Wing Training, Reduced gravity aircraft: Active (1) 2005 - TBD Johnson Space Center: Ex-USN C-9B
Weightlessness is the complete or near-complete absence of the sensation of weight, i.e., zero apparent weight. It is also termed zero g-force, or zero-g (named after the g-force) [1] or, incorrectly, zero gravity. Microgravity environment is more or less synonymous in its effects, with the recognition that g-forces are never exactly zero.
It was first named the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory after funding was approved in June 1940. It was renamed the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in 1947, the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory ( LFPL ) in 1948 (after George W. Lewis , the head of NACA from 1919 to 1947), and the NASA Lewis Research Center in 1958.
The Zero Gravity Research Facility was built in 1966 as part of NASA's Centaur upper-stage rocket development program. In order to ensure proper firing and functioning of upper-stage rockets, NASA needed to understand the behavior of fluids (importantly, the liquid gases fueling the rockets), in the reduced gravity where they would fire.
The C-9B aircraft have provided cargo and passenger transportation as well as forward deployed air logistics support for the Navy and Marine Corps. (The original "Skytrain" was the World War II era C-47 developed from the civilian DC-3.) A C-9B was also chosen by NASA for reduced gravity research, [9] replacing the aging KC-135 Vomit Comet. [10]