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Fly me to ... a lunar parabola

26 November 2009

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Participants of the parabolic flight symposium

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Wings for discovery

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ESA's parabolic flight campaign manager Vladimir Pletser at the

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$1st ESA\ Parabolic Flight Campagne Group in 1984$

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Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy at the symposium with F. Duclos

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Lunar parabolas and martian gravity

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Zero-G Airbus A300 for parabolic flights

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Since 1997, the 'Zero-G' Airbus A300 - the world's largest for parabolic flights - has been used by ESA, CNES, DLR and industrial customers to provide repeated microgravity periods of up to 20 seconds for research purposes. It is managed by Novespace, a subsidiary of CNES. ESA runs typically two parabolic campaigns annually. Scientists are regularly invited to submit experiment proposals for review and selection by peers.

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