Organization · Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA's propulsion center, with about 6,000 staff. In 1995 to 2002 it funded antigravity tests with Ning Li and a Podkletnov-style disk, which Science called 'NASA's fling with anti-gravity'. Joshua LeBlanc worked on its nuclear propulsion projects before dying in a burning Tesla in 2025, and Amy Eskridge's father was an MSFC engineer. Huntsville is the second hub of the story after Albuquerque.
On the record
- Science (1996): 'NASA's fling with anti-gravity'.
- Physica C 281 (1997), Li, Noever, Robertson, Koczor and Brantley: null static gravity test.
- Robertson, NASA MSFC, 1999: 'On the Mechanism for a Gravity Effect using Type 2 Superconductors'.
- LeBlanc's Tesla left the road, hit trees and burned near Empire, AL on 22 Jul 2025; ALEA release.
- DARPA closed out DRACO in Jun 2025; NASA's FY2026 request had no nuclear propulsion funding.
Claims (5)
Eskridge's work came from research 'generated originally' by an MSFC team member and needed NASA approval to release.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
'Promising results always disappear into the classified realm.'analysisSourced, unconfirmed
LeBlanc was killed over nuclear propulsion knowledge after DRACO's cancellation.speculationSourced, unconfirmed
LeBlanc was abducted.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
LeBlanc's crash came from personal distress.analysisSourced, unconfirmed