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Also Known As Elizabeth Coleman
Born January 26, 1892 • Texas
Died April 30, 1926 (aged 34) • Jacksonville • Florida

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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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