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Showing posts with label Set for Zero-Gravity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Set for Zero-Gravity. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Student Team Set for Zero-Gravity Fire Experiment on NASA 'Vomit Comet'

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.