ERAU of Daytona Beach Chosen by NASA

As reported by the Prescott News, "NASA has selected two undergraduate student teams from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to conduct experiments of their own design aboard the agency’s “Weightless Wonder” aircraft at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

"The teams from Embry-Riddle’s residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., will participate in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program June 17-26, 2010.

"The prestigious annual program, which chose only 14 collegiate teams from across the nation this year, gives students the invaluable opportunity to propose, design, build, fly, and test scientific experiments in microgravity without the extreme costs and requirements of actual space flight. NASA's Weightless Wonder is a specially modified aircraft that is flown in parabolic arcs to create temporary periods of microgravity, or free fall, during which students and their experiments float above the aircraft’s floor.

"The Daytona Beach student team, at the request of NASA’s Launch Services Program managers, will conduct an experiment that may produce new insights into the prediction of troublesome liquid behavior in fuel tanks, which can cause destabilization of spinning spacecraft. The team will examine liquid slosh in a fuel tank filled to 100% capacity. Additional information on the Daytona Beach team is available at http://eraumicrogravity.org.

"The goal of NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program is to increase the number of scientific professionals graduating from U.S. colleges and universities. The student teams are chosen by a review board of NASA scientists and engineers who examine proposals from a substantial pool of applicants from across the nation. For more information, visit http://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov."

Embry-Riddle is a large employer and certainly a positive influence in the Daytona Beach Community. We congratulate the members of the team!\

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