Novespace chief parabolic flight pilot explains why there are four pilots on each flight and what equipment they use to share control over the aircraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Veteran parabolic flight pilot Eric Delesallet talks with Space.com's Tereza Pultarova about what it takes to create ...

The 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign started last week in Bordeaux, France, with preparation and training for the experimenters involved. On 8 June 2004, the specially strengthened ‘Zero-G’ Airbus ...

Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the ...

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OTTAWA, CANADA — I was soaring like a superhero. I flew without gravity during eight brief stretches on my Aug. 1 flight. Among my personal items was an Apollo 13 mission patch; the Hollywood hit ...

A senior executive at Zero-G loves watching first-time customers on her company's parabolic airplane flights. When clients float in the air like astronauts, "there is a wonder that comes out in people ...

We've all had dreams of being up in space and experiencing the freedom of zero gravity, no longer bound by the strange force that keeps us stuck on the ground. But this experience is limited to the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is seeking input from industry on plans to resume purchases of microgravity aircraft flights, possibly on a “purely commercial” basis, as two companies make plans to start or restart ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...