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Also Known As	ground attack aircraft • close support aircraft

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Kelly Johnson

American aeronautical engineer

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.

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