Rochester Institute of Technology - School of Photographic Arts and Sciences



NEWSFLASH - Imaging and Photo Tech students fly on the VOMIT COMET

FLYING HIGH ON THE NASA MICROGRAVITY AIRPLANE

You can read the final report submitted to NASA by the Imaging and Photographic Technology student team that flew their experiment on the NASA JSC DC-9 Microgravity airplane in July 2008 by choosing this link or see it / download as a PDF file by selecting PDF version of report.

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Chris Ubelacker (Team Leader) and Greg Sharp, Jarrett Whetstone and James Craven (Flight Team) proposed an experiment to the NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Program and their proposal, dealing with an examination of the performance of ink-jet printers in a microgravity environment was accepted. They designed and constructed their experimental package over the Winter and Spring quarters and in July 2008 transported it to Houston where NASA engineers and scientists examined their work and ultimately approved it for flight. On July 17 and 18, 2008 the team flew on the C-9 airplane (aka the Vomit Comet) and conducted their experiments. Chris and James flew first and they encountered many unanticipated problems. These were fixed by the group overnight and the next day Jarrett and Greg flew with the package and acquired data that is currently being prepared by the group into a final report. The team received support from RIT's president, Dr. Bill Destler, the IPT department and outside sources.


You can read their final report submitted to NASA by
choosing this link or see it / download as a PDF file by selecting PDF version of report.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S     Team!