A Weightless Fourth
Department:
Privatizing Spaceflight
Teaser:
"As zero gravity vacations come of age, one family shares its weightless holiday experience aboard a Zero Gravity Corporation aircraft."
Source:
SPACE.com Download time: Jul 5 2010 3:02 PM ET
Like many American families across the country, the Stern family of Colorado celebrated the Fourth of July holiday together on Sunday. But instead of a traditional barbecue or picnic, the family took to the skies for a novel weightless daytrip on a Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G) aircraft.
Here, journalist and eldest Stern daughter Sarah Stern describes the experience of the July 4th trip, which was arranged as part of a project led by her father – planetary scientist Alan Stern – investigating the scientific uses of zero gravity and suborbital spaceflights at the Southwest Research Institute:…
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