weightlessness | zero gravity

drop tower

drop well

drop tower [ drop tube ]

weightlessness | zero-g | zero gravity

weightlessness | zero gravity | zero-g | zero-G

Weightlessness | Zero-g | Zero gravity

prolonged conditions of weightlessness

It's an attempt to figure out how the brain adapts to weightlessness, and in particular how we perceive orientation in a weightless environment.

Across 100 shuttle flights, I think there have been 70 flights that had cancer experiments on them, and that's because cells interact differently once they're in zero gravity.

Date : 21-25.11.94 Main organiser : CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) - Switzerland Information : Neil Calder CERN Tel: +41 22 767 41 01 Fax: +41 22 785 02 47 Project 19 Micro-gravity : Universities on Course for Parabolic Flights Weightless Conditions for Students' Practical Work A competition for adventurous students A Caravelle provides a weightless environment for experiments in micro-gravity Going up in space is not the only way to experiment with weightlessness or micro-gravity; by precisely mapping out a bell-shaped trajectory, for twenty seconds or so an aircraft can also create a weightless environment, with o ...[+++]bjects flying freely around the cabin.

Since 1989, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been using a specially conditioned Caravelle to carry out this kind of sub-orbital flight and thus create a situation of micro-gravity.