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Also Known As Max Leroy Anderson
Born September 10, 1934 • Oklahoma
Died June 27, 1983 (aged 48) • West Germany
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Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
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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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