HOUSTON — If you spot a low-flying plane banking back and forth over the Houston area in the coming days, don’t be alarmed — it’s science at work.
Beginning Wednesday, June 3, a fleet of five research aircraft will operate out of Ellington Airport on a mission that will have them tracing precise parallel patterns across the skies above the city and the nearby Gulf coastline through June 13.
The flights are part of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program, known as SARP. It’s an eight-week summer internship that gives undergraduate students direct access to flying science laboratories and real-world field research experience…