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NASA Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program
Credit: NASA
NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program offers students and teachers the chance to conduct experiments aboard modified jets that create brief stints of weightlessness during parabolic flights. The program is based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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UCSD Microgravity Team: Waiting for Takeoff
Credit: SPACE.com/Tariq Malik
Members of the University of California, San Diego Microgravity Team wait with their biofuel fire experiment apparatus ahead of a weightless flight as part of NASA's Microgravity University Program. Image taken July 17, 2013 at Ellington Field, Houston. They are: (clockwise from top left): Jack Goodwin, Victor Hong, team leader Sam Avery, and Daneesha Kenyon.
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NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Paths
Credit: NASA Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program
This NASA graphic depicts the parabolic flight path for weightless science flights under NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.
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NASA Microgravity University Hangar
Credit: SPACE.com/Tariq Malik
Teams of students and teachers prepare their experiments for weightless tests inside a NASA hangar at Ellington Field in Houston during NASA's Microgravity University Program flight week on July 17, 2013. Fourteen teams were selected to fly experiments in weightless conditions aboard a modified jet as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.
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NASA Microgravity University: Briefing Room
Credit: SPACE.com/Tariq Malik
The mission briefing room at NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at Ellington Field, Houston, is decorated with paintings of aircraft used in the weightless flights and the emblems of past missions. Image taken on July 17, 2013.
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Fuel Droplet Burns in One-G
Credit: Sam Avery
A fuel droplet burns in one-G (Earth gravity), in the University of California, San Diego lab where undergaduate Sam Avery and his team are studying microgravity's effects on fire.
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UCSD Microgravity Team: Control Box
Credit: SPACE.com/Tariq Malik
University of California, San Diego, aerospace engineering student Sam Avery demonstrates the control box for his team's zero-gravity flame experiment to ride on a weightless flight during NASA's Microgravity University Program at Ellington Field, Houston. Image taken July 17, 2013.
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NASA Microgravity University: Mission Room
Credit: SPACE.com/Tariq Malik
The mission briefing room at NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at Ellington Field, Houston, awaits crews for the agency's Microgravity University flights in July 2013. Image taken on July 17, 2013.
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UCSD Microgravity Fire Experiment
Credit: Sam Avery
A computer rendering of the UCSD microgravity fire experiment, after deposition of the fuel droplet.
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UCSD Microgravity Fire Experiment Team
Credit: Sam Avery
The UCSD microgravity fire experiment team, from left: Henry Lu, Sam Avery, Josh Sui, Seeman Farah.
Source: http://www.space.com/22008-photos-zero-gravity-flight-nasa-microgravity-university.html
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