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After two intense weeks, the Fly Your Thesis! 2017 campaign has come to an end. Six student teams coming from all over Europe performed - after more than a year of development – their experiments in microgravity conditions.
The students experienced 93 parabolas in total, equivalent to about half an hour of microgravity. During the first week, the students set up their experiment aboard the NOVESPACE's Airbus A310 ZERO-G and, assisted by NOVESPACE and ESA Education, were able to successfully integrate their hardware on the plane and get ready to fly. Nothing was left to chance. Every protocol, every procedure was studied up to the smallest detail. The students were finally ready to live the dream of seeing their creation (and themselves!) floating around in microgravity. This year, the experiments were very diverse ranging from material science to psychology, all trying to dissect the role of gravity in their respective fields of research.
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