For most of us, job training conjures images of windowless meeting rooms and white boards. For NASA astronauts, however, training requires a bit more of an exotic locale. Specifically, it requires a ...

Picture this. You are on an airplane cutting through clouds at over 500 mph. Smoothly, the plane noses over into a steep descent, as if it were a dolphin swimming in the blue sea. Soon you are ...

Since Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos flew to space last month, the topic of how to train for such an experience has become front-and-center. It has been a long time ...

Workshops, Zero-Gravity Flight Experiences Will Help Teachers Connect Math, Science Curricula to Human Space Exploration and Inspire More Students to Pursue Careers in Science What: The Northrop ...

NASA’s vomit comet is a second-hand McDonnell Douglas C-9B Skytrain II, a hollowed-out airliner that can briefly create weightless conditions for the occupants. But NASA isn’t the only one with toys: ...

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Although underwater training for extravehicular activity—spacewalks—is now the norm, NASA started out using aircraft to simulate weightlessness. Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers were used for this purpose, ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Winded and fresh off running the last leg of the 180-mile Spaceport America Relay Race with her Virgin Galactic team, Beth Moses is still an energetic private ...

A Boeing 727 aircraft that simulates the weightless feeling of space stopped at the Long Beach Airport Sunday, Aug. 16, kicking off the Zero Gravity Corporation’s renewed operations after shutting ...

Want to fly weightless, like an astronaut? Go to Moscow. With entrepreneur Burt Rutan's recent suborbital flight success--proof that it doesn't take a multibillion-dollar government budget to send a ...

American businessman Dennis Tito, the world’s first orbital space tourist, is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the International Space Station. Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a ...