Undergraduates at the University
of Vermont (UVM) designed and built a payload that flew onboard a NASA
Nike-Orion sounding rocket (June 2000) and NASA's KC-135 aircraft (March
1999, August 1999, and March 2000), which provide exposure to different
durations of micro- and hyper-gravity. The UVM project is a biomedical
experiment which will allow students to examine the effect of various gravitational
levels on Drosophila (fruit fly) activity.
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