The Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Foundation announced today that a recent poll of more than 200 teachers who participated in its 2006 and 2007 Weightless Flights of Discovery Program reveals the ...

The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) Foundation kicks off its fifth annual Weightless Flights of Discovery program in Cincinnati, OH on Tuesday, Sept.14, 2010, with the ultimate science ...

"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally. The 30 classroom ...

"What goes up must come down". Ever since astronauts started playing games in space, for instance catching morsels of food floating in weightlessness conditions, the general public knows that the ...

This past weekend Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R)), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, hosted its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless Experience in Washington D.C.

In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard Skylab, the first space laboratory. Dr. Garriott, a scientist pilot, performed ...

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Oct. 11 (UPI) --Twelve people with disabilities plan to experience more than seven minutes of weightlessness on a zero-gravity airplane flight from California next week as part of a mission to advance ...