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NASA gravity modification project [AvWeek]

Here's an odd little item from the online version of the latest Aviation
Week issue:  http://www.awgnet.com/aviation/avi_int.htm

GRAVITY MODIFICATION EXPERIMENTS

A team working on NASA's Advanced Space Transportation Program is
pursuing several small, "breakthrough physics" research projects that
could have a significant effect on future space flight. The project's
approach is to search out and review promising areas where
experimental data from astronomy, astrophysics, particle physics and
other fields does not fit accepted theories, according to Garry Lyles,
manager of the ASTP program at Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala. Cleveland-based NASA-Lewis, however, is leading the
breakthrough physics effort. Areas of interest include
faster-than-light travel, inertia modification and quantum fluctuation
energy. To qualify, ideas must have a well-developed theoretical
basis, pass a peer review and have defined experiments that can
provide low-cost, clear resolution to the theory. A first experiment,
on potential gravity modification, is being pursued in conjunction
with the University of Alabama and should be completed by year-end. If
successful, it could help shield an object from its gravitational
field, effectively lowering the weight of launcher or orbital vehicles
and reducing the need for heavy-lift boosters. NASA plans a closed,
mid-August workshop to recommend which subjects to pursue.

Kerry


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