Parabolic aircraft flights - An effective tool in preparing microgravity experiments

Aircraft parabolic flights have proved useful for allowing human intervention into short-term microgravity experiments. NASA uses a converted KC-135 to give researchers a microgravity environment 25 sec at a time. The flights, as happened with the Spacelab Fluid Physics Module, permit check-outs of...

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Published in:E.S.A. bulletin 1985-05 (42), p.58-63
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