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NASA Offering Free Zero Gravity Flights

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that NASA is offering free zero-g flight time for anyone with a viable proposal for emerging space technologies. While NASA will provide the flight time, approved projects will be responsible for all other expenses. "NASA's Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, or FAST, program helps emerging technologies mature through testing in a reduced gravity environment. To prepare technologies for space applications, it is important to demonstrate they work in a zero-gravity environment. This unique testing environment can be provided in an aircraft flying repeated parabolic trajectories which create brief periods of zero gravity. The aircraft also can simulate reduced-gravity levels similar to those found on the surface of the moon or Mars."

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  1. NASA Experimentation by Light+and+Truth · · Score: -1, Troll

    Many recent developments in space travel (from nongovernment monies) are inclusive of experiments in thought process control. Nine out of ten or more of space based experiments involve high dosages of radiation (magnetic and sub-light frequencies). Under conditions of microgravity the human brain is unable to provide natural resistance (defense mechanism) to neural pathway control as shown in documents revealed by NASA: Human Space Flight Experiment Test Battery Program. This program's output (research) was not permitted to the public under the Bush/Clinton/Reagan administration until as late as 2007 when requests made under Freedom of Information Act (Title 5 US Code Section 552) led to public discovery.

  2. I'll do an experiment in the name of everyone on / by Grimbleton · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sex in low gravity. Giggity giggity.