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    ZERO-G Weightless Flights

    Friday, November 30, 2007, 03:43 PM CST [Gifts & Occasions]

    Product Name: ZERO-G Weightless Flights
    Website: www.skymall.com
    Price: $3,675.00

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    Experience weightlessness -- like an astronaut in space -- with this amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience!

    The ZERO-G Weightless Experience is an absolutely unique adventure that few but elite professionals have been privileged to enjoy. Those who have flown weightless call it amazing and life-changing. It's a feeling of true freedom, a place where the impossible becomes real.

    The ZERO-G Weightless Experience is not simulated. It is the same kind of parabolic flying used to train astronauts for zero-gravity in space and provides an experience that is truly "Like Nothing on Earth." Parabolic flight is the only way to create sustained weightlessness without going into space, and ZERO-G is the only company to offer such an experience to the general public.

    The typical flight for the ZERO-G Weightless Experience, which features 15 parabolas, lasts approximately 90 minutes. During the weightless maneuvers (called parabolas) you experience two Lunar (1/6th gravity) and three Martian (1/3rd gravity) sessions, followed by approximately 10 total zero-gravity parabolas.

    ZERO-G weightless flights are regularly scheduled (mainly on weekends) from two locations - the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Price does not include travel to these locations.)




    No real words to describe just how awesome this experience would be.  If there were a Travel & Leisure category I would post it there, so instead this will just have to fall under the ultimate gift category.

    3.5 (1 Ratings)



    That would be pretty cool.

    Glenn
    Dec 8, 2007
    03:39 AM CST

    I have a friend who went on one of these. He said it worth every penny (although he didn't have to pay -- NASA footed the bill).

    The actual weightless time is, of course, not 90 minutes, but whatever it is it seems to leave people pretty happy.

    And, yes, for those who are wondering, it's completely safe.

    Paul
    Dec 1, 2007
    11:16 AM CST