MIT students take microgravity flight

MIT photo

What, you’ve never seen flying barneys before?

Thirty MIT students took a ride last Sunday on a Boeing 727 tricked out by the Zero-G Corp., which was founded by X-Prize founder and MIT alum Peter Diamandis. The plane simulates weightlessness — it did impressions of the surfaces of the moon and Mars — by flying in parabolic arcs.

The students did research projects involving the effects of weightlessness on the spine, solar panels for a satellite built by MIT students, and a satellite thruster — maybe this thruster?

Posted by Brendan Lynch

Tags: gravity, MIT, Peter Diamandis, Zero-G

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