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Visit this site to read a blog about a flight aboard NASA's reduced gravity parabolic aircraft--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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Motion, Forces, and Energy
- Gravity
- Relative Motion
- Informal Education
- Middle School
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
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Keywords: freefall, microgravity, weightlessness
Record Creator: 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 October 7, 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 7 October 2024).
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Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog. College Park: American Physical Society, 2006. 7 Oct. 2024 <http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall/index.cfm>.
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