Opportunities of Parabolic Flights for Master/PhD students

Dear students,

ESA is proud to announce the second edition of "Fly your Thesis! - An Astronaut Experience". Through this exciting programme, several teams of university students throughut Europe will be given the opportunity to fly their experiments in microgravity by participating in a series of parabolic flights on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft.

"Fly Your Thesis!" requires each team of students to design a scientific expreiment to be performed in microgravity, as part of their Masters/PhD thesis or research programme. In order to apply for the programme, teams should submit their outline proposals using a Letter of Intent template to be found on the website, by the deadline of 22 June 2009.

During the Campaign, the students will accompany their experiments on board for three flights of 30 parabolas, experiencing about 20 seconds of microgravity during each parabola.

All the information can be found on the website od ESA Education: www.esa.int/education together with information about many other projects and opportunities organised by ESA Education Office. For any further information, please do no hesitate to contact us through this e-mail address: FlyYourThesisesa.int.

Best regards,

Dr. Natacha Callens

Thomas-Louis de Lophem