UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, in conjunction with NASA, will take four volunteer cancer patients on a zero-gravity ride into the upper atmosphere to study why zero-gravity conditions on ...

NASA is calling on college undergraduates interested in performing reduced gravity experiments onboard the agency’s “Weightless Wonder” aircraft to submit their proposals by Monday, Oct. 30. The ...

NASA’s current batch of ISS spacesuits are getting long in the tooth, having been in service for over four decades. The space agency is keen to acquire spacesuits fit for the 21st century, and recent ...

LAS VEGAS – January 3, 2008 – NASA has chosen Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R)), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, to manage and operate an aircraft to ...

EAST ROCKHILL — Two teams of students in Pennridge High School’s gifted program are among just 20 nationally who have been chosen to help NASA with zero-gravity research. For the last few months, team ...

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli demonstrates what happens when you spin a dreidel at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA / Jasmin Moghbeli When NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli spun a dreidel in the ...

Astronaut Richard Linnehan prepares to draw blood from astronaut Charles Brady on board the Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA). If humans are to one day explore beyond our moon -- to Mars, for example -- ...

In the zero-gravity airplanes or vomit comet, why does stuff behave like there is no gravity when it is just falling? – Austin B., 11, Scranton, Pennsylvania I have flown many times in zero-gravity ...

Printers in space! Astronauts on the space station may not have to wait for the next resupply mission if they can print out needed parts right onboard. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

An innovative astronaut missed the smell of his morning coffee so much while on board the International Space Station that he invented a creative solution. NASA astronaut Don Pettit created the ...

A raunchy episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend discussed the hilarious consequences of sending pornography into space with mechanical engineer and contractor for NASA Smythe Mullikin. Conan O’Brien ...