Reduced Gravity - Student Flight Campaign 2000

Welcome, to the Central Texas Community College’s Reduced Gravity Home page. This page has been created to inform fellow students, peers and all others interested in our progress. “Progress in what?” Central Texas College has put together an elite group of 10 students who are enrolled in various science classes such as Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy, etc. Their mission: to prove various scientific concepts with SIX experiments which are to be conducted in a Micro Gravity environment thousands of feet above the earth in NASA’s modified Boeing 747.

All data gathered by the students through these experiments will be shared by an organized Out Reach Program devised by the team leader, Dr. Rabbani, and C.T.C.’s science dept. chairman Mr. Williams. Journalists will also be along for the ride, recording data and the team’s wacky experiences in a micro gravity environment, which will be shared in the (Newspaper name) and (T.V. News) for your viewing enjoyment.

The enthusiastic science team will be heading for NASA in Houston on the 12^th of April of the year 2000, where they will go through rigorous training exercises to help them prepare for the micro-g and 2-g environment they will be exposed to for approximately 2 hours while in flight. Also, provided to the team are four highly qualified NASA engineers/scientists to help guide and prepare the C.T.C. science team.

The highly skilled science team will be using all their knowledge and skills. They will also be pushing their personal courage to the limits in order to obtain the data required to prove or disprove their theories. The science team will be using all three of Newton’s laws to help explain their work whether successful for not. A couple of these experiments come out of texts books used in schools and colleges around the U.S. Therefore, through our Out Reach Program, the data collected by the science team will be used by several physics teachers in the classrooms to help reinforce the data presented by these books and will expand the knowledge of their students.