Plasma Ben's video: 3D: ZeroG Gyroscope

Demonstrating a gyroscope while onboard a NASA microgravity aircraft flight during the Teaching From Space campaign. This flight took place as part of a NASA pilot program to introduce high school teachers to zero gravity. Seen here is Ben Longmier, Ph.D., a NASA mentor; Liz Henriquez, a Bergen Co Tech High School teacher, and Dennis Montone, a math and science administrator. Notice that over the course of the parablic manuever the gyroscope seems to change angle with respect to the aircraft's floor. In fact the gyroscope remains, more or less, motionless with respect to the Earth, and it is the aircraft that rotates around the gyroscope. Thank you to www.Gyroscope.com, for the wonderfully high power gyroscope. High school teachers Laura Nardomarino, Luke Thawley, and Mike Chomin flew on a subsequent flight. This was the culmination of a semester long multidisciplinary effort involving physics, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and financial literacy classes from Bergen Tech. More information at: http://www.wix.com/btzerog/zerog-2011 www.ProjectAether.org