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Title: Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery


1
Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights
of Discovery
2
The Program Objectives
  • Introduce educators to the ZERO-G experience
  • Inform participants of unique features of this
    program which will allow them to develop new
    strategies for their classroom
  • Discuss ways to integrate the use of the ZERO-G
    experience into the classroom
  • Provide teachers with a ZERO-G experience they
    can share with their students

3
Background Zero Gravity
  • Teachers can experience extended periods of
    weightlessness without going to space.
  • Parabolic flight is the same method NASA has used
    to train its astronauts for the last 45 years and
    the same way Tom Hanks floated in Apollo 13.

4
How it Works
  • The weightlessness experienced is actually
    equivalent to the type of "free fall" you
    experience when sky diving.
  • In this case, the body of the aircraft surrounds
    you and protects you from the on-rushing wind.
  • At the end of the free fall period, the aircraft
    also scoops you up and carries you back up to the
    top of the arc to begin the free fall process
    again.

5
How it Works
6
The Parabolas
7
Floating Area
8
The Plane (G-Force 1)
  • G-Force One (aircraft) Amerijet Boeing 727-200
    Origin La Guardia Speed 476 kts Altitude
    33000 ft

9
Flight Path
10
Horizon View
11
Zero-Gravity
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Results of Experience
  • Teachers are now better prepared to deliver
    instruction to meet the needs of their students.
  • Experience tied to the requirements set forth in
    the National Science and Math Standards.
  • Enhanced understanding of the content and
    demonstrate that they can interrelate and
    interpret important concepts associated with
    microgravity and can conduct scientific
    investigations and make the appropriate
    mathematical calculations.
  • As a result, teachers will be able to
    successfully convey to students the major
    concepts, principles, theories, laws, and
    interrelationships of their experiences in
    microgravity as recommended by the National
    Science Teachers Association.

15
THANK YOU!
  • Special thanks to the Northrop Grumman Foundation
    and Zero-G Corporation!
  • They provided educators with a once in a life
    time experience.
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