Scott Brown flew like Superman.

Meghan McCurdy fulfilled a lifelong dream.

Zaricke Jackson lost his breakfast.

In a flight re-creating the training NASA astronauts get, 30 teachers experienced weightlessness, lunar gravity and Martian gravity yesterday in 15 30-second intervals as they ascended and descended between 24,000 and 32,000 feet in a Boeing 727 off Oahu.

The group, all public school teachers, went up thanks to the Northrop Grumman Foundation, which since 2006 has taken science and math educators on zero-gravity flights as a way to reinvigorate teachers and inspire students.

This year, teachers in six cities — Honolulu; Cincinnati; McAllen, Texas; Memphis, Tenn.; Gulfport, Miss.; and Salt Lake City — were picked for the program.

After yesterday’s flight the Hawaii teachers gathered to eat lunch — or not — in Waikiki, accept certificates of completion and "debrief."

Brown, a science teacher at Niu Valley Middle School, went on the flight with his wife, Darrah, also a teacher at Niu Valley.

"Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!" said Darrah Brown, who teaches eighth-grade science. "It was just unbelievable."

Her husband said he performed some experiments to take back to his class.

And he got to kick off lightly from the floor for a Superman-like experience that left him giddy.

Husband and wife Julie and Craig Segawa were also on the flight. The two teach science at Stevenson Middle School and said their students were ecstatic to hear the two would be going on a zero-G flight.

"It’s really got them fired up," Julie Segawa said.

Though the flights are fun, they also have a serious purpose: inspiring young people to pursue science, technology, engineering or math.

Hawaii teachers say they have already seen their students more engaged, fascinated at the idea of being weightless and interested to see what the experiments their teachers conducted will show.

The teachers did about three experiments.

At the prompting of her students, teacher Yuko Iio tried to do push-ups in regular gravity (she could not do any), then tried to do them in lunar gravity with another teacher on her back (she could do eight).

Other teachers tossed balls, small objects, even each other, gauging the difference between regular gravity, microgravity and zero gravity.

McCurdy, a teacher at Nanaikapono Elementary School, said her students got a lesson in zero gravity before she went up, and she will tailor more instruction around the experience.

Going up in zero-G is "fulfilling a childhood dream," she said, adding that if nothing else she wants to drive home to her students that the flight shows "all things are possible" and that they should never give up on what they want to do.

Teachers for the zero-G flights are selected in a competitive process. They have to apply and spell out how they would use the experience in their classrooms and what experiments they would conduct.

Jackson, a physical science and physics teacher at Campbell High School, was able to do a few experiments on the flight before his stomach stopped cooperating.

Jackson got sick on the seventh weightlessness interval, about halfway through the flight.

Still, between sips of water yesterday afternoon, he said these two things about the experience in the same breath: "I lost it" and "It was awesome."