OTTAWA, CANADA — I was soaring like a superhero. I flew without gravity during eight brief stretches on my Aug. 1 flight. Among my personal items was an Apollo 13 mission patch; the Hollywood hit ...
NASA is looking for new providers to supply low-gravity parabolic flights for spaceflight training and scientific research.
Veteran parabolic flight pilot Eric Delesallet talks with Space.com's Tereza Pultarova about what it takes to create ...
The 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign started last week in Bordeaux, France, with preparation and training for the experimenters involved. On 8 June 2004, the specially strengthened ‘Zero-G’ Airbus ...
NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program has selected eight space technology payloads for reduced gravity flights on board specialized aircraft and commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles (sRLVs).
Novespace chief parabolic flight pilot explains why there are four pilots on each flight and what equipment they use to share control over the aircraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth: a parabolic airplane flight. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
This NASA aircraft isn’t about smooth rides, it’s about floating, falling, and repeat. Are we about to see a replacement?
The band OK Go released their latest creative music video and this one was taken on a parabolic airplane tens of thousands of feet in the sky. The video, which features OK Go floating in ...
We've all had dreams of being up in space and experiencing the freedom of zero gravity, no longer bound by the strange force that keeps us stuck on the ground. But this experience is limited to the ...