NASA Selects Teachers to Fly Student Experiments in Reduced Gravity Aircraft

“Teachers from six NASA Explorer Schools (NES) have been selected to receive the 2012 School Recognition Award for their contributions to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. In April 2013, three teachers from each school will travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. There they will have the opportunity to fly aboard the agency’s reduced gravity aircraft and conduct experiments designed by their students. The experiments will examine the acceleration and inertia of objects, how fluids with different viscosities behave in microgravity, and how the absence of gravity affects mass and weight.” More