DROP Team
The Yale Drop Team was founded by five physics undergraduate in the Fall of 2005 to compete in the NASA Microgravity University Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP). Funded by the Yale Physics Department, the team constructed their experiment, a study of the hysteresis of Taylor cone formation, in the Spring of 2006, and after a week of training at Ellington Field in Houston flew on board NASA's C-9 "Vomit Comet" in July 2006. The YDT was the first team from Yale to ever participate in this highly competitive program and paved the way for a second generation, the Yale Drop Team 2006-2007, to take their experiment on the C-9 in March of 2007. Also check out our website at www.yale.edu/dropteam
2010 team: Emma Alexander (YC'13), Denise Alfonso (YC'11), Michael Boyle (YC'10), Irene Cai (YC'13), Roxanne Carini (YC'11), Michele Dufault (YC'11), Madeline Emery (YC'11), James Giamonna (YC'13), Alan Hutchison (YC'11),Arjun Kavi (YC'12), Israel-Marc Kositsky (YC'13), Joseph O'Rourke (YC'12), A.J. Eldorado Riggs (YC'11), Katherine Rosenfeld (YC'10), and Sidney Cahn (Faculty)
2009 team: Katherine Rosenfeld (YC'10), Gregory Mosby (YC'09), Frances Douglas (YC'11), Michael Boyle (YC'10), Andrew Kurzrok (YC'11), Joseph O'Rourke (YC'12), Michele Dufault (YC'11)
2008 team: Gregory Mosby (YC'09), Frances Douglas (YC'11), Michael Boyle (YC'10), Katherine Rosenfeld (YC'10), Andrew Kurzrok (YC'11)
2007 team: Stephen Fedele (YC'08), Nicholas Sedlet (YC'08), Ning Liang (YC'07), Jeff Thompson (YC'07), Gregory Mosby (YC'09)
2006 team: Benjamin Jorns (YC'07), Ning Liang (YC-'07), Stephen Fedele (YC-'08), Ruth Toner (YC'07), Anthony Garvan (YC'07)
