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Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
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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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Charles Green: References & Edit History

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Anniversary information added. Mar 22, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 08, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Vauxhall History - The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight. May 22, 2020
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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