HOUSTON, Texas -- Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon, marking a historic moment for NASA and Houston. As we celebrate the anniversary, the space agency is releasing never ...
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Throwing Cats in Space

If a cat is dropped upside down at zero-gravity, will it fall on its feet? NASA and the U.S Air Force solved this seemingly random question in the early 1960s, after sending cats into a ...
Purdue graduate student Samantha Alberts and professor Steven Collicott discuss details of a zero-gravity flight experiment that flew this June on NASA's "vomit comet," an airplane that induces short ...