Euro Students Defy Gravity

Growing up in Britain in the 1980s , I was ridiculously jealous of those populate in America , because Back To The Future made it look so cool . Living in America today , I am now ridiculously jealous of those raise up in Britain . Why ? Because the European Space Agency is invite European university students to fly around in simulated zero - 1000 as part of their education . If you people in reality had clock time - traveling DeLoreans , it would n’t hurt so much , you know .

The ESA ’s new program Fly Your Thesis ! – Yes , the exclamation point is part of the name – has been set up up as part of the collective European drive to hothouse today ’s youth into becoming superscientists who will enable EU domination of the world by 2015 . Or , alternatively , just to get them concerned in scientific discipline as a career :

This exciting programme will enable university students to wing their experiments in microgravity by participating in a serial of parabolical escape on an Airbus A300 Zero - G aircraft .

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“ Fly Your Thesis ! ” call for each team of students to design a scientific experimentation to be performed in microgravity , as part of their Masters dissertation , PhD thesis or enquiry programme . Teams should cross-file on ESA Education ’s Project Portal and upload their scheme proposals using the Letter of Intent template , by the deadline of 13 March 2025 .

And should you pass the ingress examination , it ’s not just the zero gravity experience that awaits you ; it ’s also the corporate brains of Europe :

[ T]hree or four squad will be selected to further develop and perform their experimentation on an ESA Microgravity Research Campaign that will take place in Bordeaux , France , during the autumn of 2009 . There , the scholar team will work in close middleman with renowned European Scientists carry out their own research .

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