Zero Gravity Flights

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Take part in one the most exhilarating aspects of spaceflight, weightlessness. Zero Gravity Corporation is the first and only Federal Aviation Administration approved provider of weightless flight to the general public. The weightlessness experienced by everyone inside the airplane is actually equivalent to the type of "free fall" experienced when sky diving. In this case however, the body of the aircraft surrounds the participants and protects them from the on–rushing wind. At the end of the free fall period, the aircraft also scoops them up and carries them back up to the top of the arc to begin the free fall process again.

The experience consists of a brief training session for passengers followed by a 90–minute flight aboard G–Force One, during which parabolic manoeuvres are performed. Flyers experience Martian gravity (1/3–gravity), Lunar gravity (1/6–gravity) and zero gravity. Parabolic flight is the same method NASA has used to train its astronauts for the last 45 years and the same way Tom Hanks floated in Apollo 13.