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April 27, 2008

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Graduating Senior Profiles: Going Weightless for NASA

The four students are the first Pitt team ever to participate in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program, or Microgravity University, wherein undergraduate teams propose and test in zero gravity research of value to NASA.

Forty teams were invited this year to Houston’s Johnson Space Center to test their ideas aboard a reduced gravity aircraft—a C-9 airplane plummeting toward Earth, resulting in about 30 seconds of weightlessness. Click here to view the article.

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