First High-School Student From Africa Flies Weightless on Zero-G Flight to Inspire Students Globally to Learn Science and Math
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Stella Felix of Nigeria on Saturday becomes the first high school student from Africa to experience the exhilaration of zero gravity on a parabolic flight from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
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By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 2--BILOXI -- Students at Gorenflo and Nichols elementary schools spent Thursday morning making and flying airplanes, going on a virtual flight and making parachutes using technology.
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The moment he became weightless, Mike Hickey of South High School in Cleveland, Ohio, completely forgot about the science experiment he was to conduct.
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South African students at a high school in a township outside Durban were treated to a special science lesson delivered by Indian President Abdul Kalam.
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A 23-year-old pilot took off Wednesday in a single-engine plane on the last leg of his three-month quest to circumnavigate the earth alone.
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By JILL SCHENSUL, TRAVEL EDITOR "Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible ." Capt.
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Lucy Hawking, daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking -- the world-renowned physicist and expert on gravity -- will fly aboard Zero Gravity Corporation's weightless experience on its June 9 Father's Day flight.
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South African paraglider Cyril Mazibuko demonstrates the sport, using the wind currents and conditions in the Vaalkops hills, part of the Highveld region of South Africa.
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By The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 22--One San Luiz, Ariz., teacher is going to space this summer -- space academy, that is.   Jesus Arrizon, a Southwest Junior High School math teacher, is attending the U.S.
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A team of French doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near zero-gravity conditions Wednesday on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.
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By Amanda Ricker, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 14--An Oklee, Minn., teacher is flying high -- all the way to space camp.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett becomes the first solo pilot to fly an airplane nonstop completely around the world. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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By CAROLYN CHURCHILL  ONE of the pioneers of space exploration touched down in Scotland yesterday as part of a project which promotes science to schoolchildren.
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French doctors prepare to carry out the first operation on a human in weightless conditions aboard an aircraft.
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GREENBELT, Md., June 4  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tamela Maciel, a student from Grants Pass, Ore., has been selected to participate in a newly established NASA program at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Maciel currently attends the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  Last summer, astronaut Lisa Nowak was soaring 220 miles above Earth, floating in the rarefied air of the international space station.