Teacher Megan Seals to Fly ZeroG in Virginia

Megan Seals, a Teachers in Space leader and 5th Grade Fairfax County public school teacher, will be among those flying in the ZeroG flight from Dulles, VA on Saturday, March 14 after being nominated by State Senator William C. Wampler, Jr. [R-Bristol, VA.] to make the space training flight [video].

Seals, a Big Stone Gap, VA. native, presently serves on the board of directors of the Space Frontier Foundation and she has served on the SFF's Teachers in Space Team the past five years. She published an article on Teachers in Space in the Virginia Journal of Science Education while an education graduate student as James Madison University; and, appeared on Northern Virginia television with Del. Ken Plum [D-Reston, VA.] in late 2007.

Wampler was the chief sponsor of the Virginia ZeroGravity-ZeroTax Act enacted by the Virginia General Assembly in 2008. The Federal Aviation Administration recently credited this measure along with the Virginia Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act of 2007 as making Virginia the commercial space launch "Agent of Change."

ZeroG is seeking to reinvest a tax benefit back into Virginia education and acknowledge Virginia's dedication to commercial space flight and space flight training in partnership with Teachers in Space and State Senator William C. Wampler, Jr.

ZeroGravity Corporation is owned by Space Adventures, LLC. of Vienna, VA. The firm is best known for providing wealthy people the ability to book an orbital flight aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station for $35-million or even on to the Moon for $100-million.