Teachers Experience

Zero Gravity

Creative Video was hired to help get video material about a unique event to local news outlets. The event was Northrop Grumman's Weightless Flights of Discovery program that turned the world of forty distinguished teachers from 28 schools in the greater Washington D.C. area and Louisiana well, upside down, literally.

The teachers participated in the final pair of a dozen parabolic (or "zero gravity") flights that Northrop Grumman has sponsored this summer to help teachers inspire students to pursue technical or scientific fields related to space exploration.

The flights followed a hands-on science workshop where teachers learned the principles of microgravity. Here they received assistance in developing experiments they conducted during the flights to show how math, science and engineering principles apply to weightless space environments. The weightless flights are similar to training astronauts receive prior to space flight.

The program was launched in June and has helped to inspire an estimated 10,000 students worldwide by giving more than 250 teachers from all 50 states, five U.S. territories and 24 countries the opportunity to experiment with scientific and engineering principles in a truly weightless environment.

Northrop Grumman serves as the major sponsor for the Weightless Flights of Discovery program, which was developed and executed by the Zero Gravity Corporation. The five-city national tour began in late June at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. with subsequent touch downs in Huntsville, Ala., San Diego and Cleveland.

Peter Roof documented the pre-flight workshops and Jeff Hartman edited the news release reel following missions that flew out of Dulles Airport.

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