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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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uncrewed aerial vehicle: References & Edit History

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Retitled article. Aug 24, 2026
Link added. Feb 28, 2025
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Add new Web site: hgarvard University - Risk Management & Audit Services - Unmanned Aircraft Systems / Drones. Feb 15, 2023
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Defense - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Aug 31, 2022
Corrected display issue. Jul 24, 2019
Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - Predator Drones and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Jul 13, 2018
Video depicting the origin and development of unmanned aerial vehicles added. Aug 21, 2015
Add new Web site: United States Department of Defence - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Jan 03, 2011
Add new Web site: Federation of American Scientists - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Jan 03, 2011
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Dec 30, 2010
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Dec 30, 2010
Added image of U.S. Marines operating a Raven surveillance drone. Dec 18, 2009
Added images of MQ-1 Predator and RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Dec 04, 2009
New article added. May 29, 2009
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