Flying Aggies take on zero gravity
The NMSU Flying Aggies boarded NASA’s “Weightless Wonder” with a new team and a new experiment this summer to perform experimentation in microgravity that could improve the future of space flight. NMSU has been sending Flying Aggie teams to Houston since 2001.
Mechanical engineering students Jeremy Bruggemann, Ryan Cole, Micah Kecman and Gwynne Skaggs-Ryan, along with electrical engineering student Jacob Gilbert, designed the experiment selected to participate in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. This summer, the team traveled to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex. To board the modified McDonnell Douglas DC-9 jetliner to conduct their microgravity experiment.
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