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Glenn Hammond Curtiss.

Glenn Hammond Curtiss

American engineer

Maurice Farman, 1909

Maurice Farman

French aircraft designer and manufacturer

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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