"Today's students will be the ones going to the moon and
beyond to live, explore and work... This project gives them a
head start in preparing for those future ventures by allowing them
to conduct hands-on research and engineering today in a unique
reduced-gravity laboratory."
Source: Douglas Goforth, the Reduced
Gravity Education Flight Program manager at NASA's Johnson Space
Center in Houston, speaking of the teams that NASA has
selected -- 28 undergraduate student teams to test their science
experiments in simulated weightlessness.