NASA Offering Free Zero Gravity Flights 52
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."
Fights? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot emerging technology (Score:2, Funny)
I would like to take a slashdot troll up and see what the effect of zero-G is on said troll with a view to simulating any nausea and vomiting right here on the ground upon the user hitting the submit button. All I'll need is myself, a troll, a barf bag and a stick to whack the troll with.
There. Do I get my free zero-G flight now?
Re:Fights? (Score:2, Funny)
This unique testing environment can be provided in an aircraft flying repeated parabolic trajectories which create brief periods of zero gravity.
Speaking of mental images, I cracked up imagining them trying to choreograph a fight sequence in such a parabolic flight: What happens as gravity returns and they are still floating in the air?
Will they also swallow the cost... (Score:4, Funny)
...of fitting proper lighting to the plane and painting the inside of the hull green so I can shoot some "proper" space footage in there and CGI the backgrounds in at a later date?
Re:Well, nothing much happens (Score:4, Funny)
Reproduction in Space (Score:3, Funny)
In front of a NASA officials desk sits a well dressed man smoking a cigar pitching his project to the official who has an uneasy look on his face.
Meanwhile a man and a woman are standing in the back of the NASA officials office wearing nothing but leather strap outfits, he has a chain attached to a leather collar on his neck and she is holding the other end.
Re:I'll do an experiment in the name of everyone o (Score:3, Funny)
Never hurts to repeat research
Re:Plummeting (Score:2, Funny)
In this case you are not paying for the plummet, as you said it's cheap (go jump off a bridge) you are paying for the not die at the end of the plummet.
Re:Fights? (Score:2, Funny)
Better actually--the thing with parabolic flight is--they start climbing again. Not just regular gravity--but multiple times normal gravity!