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NASA will send 18 teachers to perform experiments on reduced gravity aircraft

Houston, USA - Flight scheduled in April 2013

NASA, the American space agency, will send into space 18 teachers, who will be selected among the schools of the NASA Explorer Schools project (NES), with its reduced gravity aircraft, in order to perform some experiments. The NES project aims to stimulate STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, through content and themes of the agency, and it involves more than 470 schools in...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1145721
Rome, Italy, 09/21/2012 14:22
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