Five Yale students have their feet firmly back on the ground after experiencing weightlessness while testing their self-designed and constructed experiment onboard a gravity-defying NASA aircraft this summer.
The students - known as the Yale Drop Team - conducted their experiment during two flights held June 26 and 27 at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.
“The reduced gravity program was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do real research and experience what only a fraction of humans ever experience - weightlessness. And it was even better the second time around,” says Greg Mosby ‘09, an astronomy and physics major and leader of the project.
The other Yale Drop Team members were Michael Boyle ‘10, Frances Douglas ‘11, Andrew Kurzrok ‘11 and Katherine Rosenfeld ‘10.
