It was Blue Origin's 12th flight carrying passengers to the edge of space and back since company founder Jeff Bezos flew the ...

But how high above Earth do you have to go to escape its gravitational tug and experience weightlessness? Technically, "you can experience weightlessness at any altitude," said Lewis Dartnell ...

Melissa Tackett, a Discovery Elementary Teacher, wins a zero-gravity flight through a special contest.

They start to float under their seatbelts. They feel what is commonly called weightlessness. But gravity isn't gone. Even on the International Space Station, astronauts experience microgravity.

In order to isolate this problem, we conducted experiments using weightlessness on board of a sounding rocket. "Our partners did parallel numerical simulations to show the importance of the two ...

One of the biggest obstacles to long-term spaceflight is microgravity, the state of near-complete weightlessness in which astronauts float and can push heavy objects through the air with ease.

“I shut the hell up.” Fernandes, a double-amputee since the age of 11, was recounting his experience in weightlessness, having recently participated in a parabolic flight alongside a disabled ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit ...

The flight will last about 10 minutes — carrying the group more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the sky and offering a few minutes of weightlessness before they descend. But at what point ...