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This site contains a blog about a flight aboard NASA's reduced gravity parabolic aircraft, also known as the Vomit Comet.  The author joined high school teams that conducted experiments in freefall.  The blog provides many details about the preflight orientation and the flights themselves, and also provides links to more information about the project, the teams, and their experiments.
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Classical Mechanics
- Gravity
- Relative Motion
- Informal Education
- Middle School
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
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This resource was featured by the Physics To Go collection from October 1, 2006 until October 16, 2006. View the feature here!


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freefall, microgravity, weightlessness
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Metadata instance created September 20, 2006 by Ann Deml
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(American Physical Society, College Park, 2006), WWW Document, (http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm).
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Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog (American Physical Society, College Park, 2006), <http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm>.
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Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog. (2006). Retrieved March 29, 2024, from American Physical Society: http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm
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American Physical Society. Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog. College Park: American Physical Society, 2006. http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm (accessed 29 March 2024).
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Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog. College Park: American Physical Society, 2006. 29 Mar. 2024 <http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm>.
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