A team of university
students is counting down toward the ultimate science ride, a weightless flight
aboard a modified NASA jet to see just how certain fires burn in zero gravity.
The experiment, led by
engineering undergraduate Sam Avery of the University of California, San Diego,
is aimed at testing how biofuels burn in weightless conditions. And with a
target flight date of Thursday (July 18), Avery and his crew are getting
pumped.
