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A short version of the Zero-G Drop Tower capabilities documenting the unique experiment package drop process.
This drop tower at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California includes a bow launch system, which can...
Composite of Marshall Space Flight Center's Low-Gravity Free Fall Facilities.These facilities include a 100-meter...
Students pause while waiting their turn at the 2.2-second Drop Tower during the second Dropping in a Microgravity...
A NASA test conductor at the top of the 2.2-second Drop Tower monitors a student lecture at a lower level. This was...
Jimmy Grisham of the Microgravity Program Plarning Integration Office at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center,...
Don Gillies, a materials scientist at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), demonstrates the classroom-size...
A researcher fills a small container used to represent a liquid hydrogen tank in preparation for a microgravity test...
Interior of a combustion experiment apparatus used in the 2.2-second drop tower at NASA's Glenn Research Center....
This prototype of a collapsible Mars lander base is part of SHIELD (Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device), a...
Neera Martin, a NASA Glenn student intern, works on a drop package for the 'Dropping in Microgravity Environment...
The first NASA Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) student competition pilot project came to a conclusion...
Marshall Space Flight Center employees visited DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. NASA's Mini Drop...
Marshall Space Flight Center employees visited DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. NASA's Mini Drop...
Marshall Space Flight Center employees visited DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. NASA's Mini Drop...
Marshall Space Flight Center employees visited DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. NASA's Mini Drop...
The first NASA Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) student competition pilot project came to a conclusion...
The first NASA Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) student competition pilot project came to a conclusion...
Students discuss fine points of their final design for the Drop Tower experiment during the second Dropping in a...
A student assembles a Lego (TM) Challenge device designed to operate in the portable drop tower demonstrator as part...
Students discuss fine points of their final design for the drop tower experiment during the second Dropping in a...
In addition to drop tower activities, students assembled a plastic pipe structure underwater in a SCUBA exercise...
Two students show the Lego (TM) Challenge device they designed and built to operate in the portable drop tower...
Members from all four teams were mixed into pairs to work on a Lego (TM) Challenge device to operate in the portable...