Northrop Grumman Offers Teachers “Weightless Flights of Discovery”
The Northrop Grumman Foundation is continuing its successful program of microgravity aircraft flights for teachers. Together with Zero Gravity Corporation, Northrop Grumman flew 248 teachers on 12 flights in 2006. In 2007, they have 16 flights scheduled.
The program is open to accredited middle-school math and science teachers and to college education majors at universities near the locations where flights take place: Bethpage, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California, Newport News, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, DC.
The program is still taking applications for two flights out of Newport News. All other flights are full for this year. For more details or to apply, see Northrop Grumman’s Weightless Flights of Discovery pages.
