NASA Flies Student Experiments in Low Gravity

NASA will send 14 groups of students and their experiments on a plane that NASA uses to train some of its astronauts for missions in space. The plane will climb to low gravity before diving back toward Earth so quickly that the weight of everything onboard will double, and that roller-coaster like motion will happen 30 times.

The experiments range from researching how to improve bone density in astronauts to testing whether video games can combat space traveler boredom, and they come from a host of minority-serving universities across the country as a part of NASA’s