Zero-G Experience
Most people know Epcot’s Mission: Space is being toned down this summer to provide the option of a more passive (and less nausea-inducing!) ride. But there is another new experience in Central Florida which provides an astronaut’s taste of The Real Thing.
Just announced at the big Pow-Wow travel convention in Orlando is the ZERO-G experience, a chance to feel what it is REALLY like to be weightless in space. Flying from the Kennedy Space Center (but as a separate company, the Zero Gravity Corporation), they offer 27 people at a time the chance to go up in their customised Boeing 727 and enjoy a zero-gravity feeling for up to 30 seconds at a time as it flies a parabola at 24,000ft.
It sounds like an amazing opportunity, and it is linked with some real astronaut training and briefing (under proper supervision from their astronaut team). The downside? It costs $3,750 per person (plus tax!!).
May 14th, 2006 at 10:50 am
This is something I would love to do… but $3,750… I’ll have to play the lottery again!
May 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Most people know Epcot’s Mission: Space is being toned down this summer to provide the option of a more passive (and less nausea-inducing!) ride.
Just to make it clear this is an optional way of riding it.. For the majority of people, you can still ride it in the Non nausea-inducing format unchanged from before.