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NASA's Zero Gravity Research Facility

Small Steps, Giant Leaps by Katie Konans

Sep 3, 202519:07Science & Medicine

A steel vacuum chamber 50 stories deep at NASA’s Glenn Research Center lets researchers simulate near-weightlessness by letting test hardware freefall for 5.18 seconds.

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NASA's Zero Gravity Research Facility is an episode from Small Steps, Giant Leaps by Katie Konans. A steel vacuum chamber 50 stories deep at NASA’s Glenn Research Center lets researchers simulate near-weightlessness by letting test hardware...

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Published Sep 3, 2025, 19:07 long, audio available.

NASA's Zero Gravity Research Facility

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