Getting to zero gravity in Houston
After months of hard work last year, five undergraduates what is perhaps the ultimate scientific reward — weightlessness.
The Yale Drop Team — made up of Greg Mosby ’09, Michael Boyle ’10, Frances Douglas ’11, Katherine Rosenfeld ’10 and Andrew Kurzrok ’11 — teamed up with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas this June to conduct plasma experiments in zero gravity aboard the C-9 aircraft known as the “Weightless Wonder.”
The group formed in early October, only a few weeks before NASA’s annual proposal deadline for student-designed experiments to be conducted...
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