Champion skateboarders Tony Hawk and Aaron "Jaws" Homoki went for a ride in a reduced-gravity aircraft operated by Zero G. They experienced the equivalent of Martian and Lunar gravity before going to zero gravity. Althou...

(Photo of Sally Ride by NASA)In the early days of...  ...ly days of spaceflight, doctors suspected that in microgravity , menstrual blood wouldn't flow out of the vagina,...  ...ood, and the physical task of changing tampons in microgravity :“The waste disposal systems onboard the U.S...  ...upply or the t...

For their latest music video, OK Go teamed up with Russia’s S7 airlines and took a trip in their vomit comet, a plane that flies in parabolic arcs to train cosmonauts for low-gravity space flight. The song is &ldqu...

(Photo: Scott Kelly)There's a flower garden on the...  ...The project examines how different plants grow in microgravity . This orange zinnia that just bloomed is a challe...  ...w to grow more challenging--and edible--plants in microgravity . UPI reports:"The zinnia plant is very different...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sg0dHqW-Q](Video...  ...o9 describes how different animals respond to the microgravity that they experience on Vomit Comet aircraft. We'...  ...rites:Most animals perceive the weightlessness of microgravity as if they were falling upside down. If you drop...  ...feet. This is ca...

(YouTube link) Astronaut/scientist Don Pettit c...  .../scientist Don Pettit conducts experiments in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAmEEAiJW...  ...a spinning CD acts as a stabilizing gyroscope in microgravity . When two and three CD players are combined in p...