ZERO-G for The Rest of Us…

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Ever watched astronauts and wealthy private citizens floating in space and thought “Wow, that looks like fun. I wish I could experience the exhilaration of weightlessness.” Thanks to ZERO-G, your time has arrived.

Since 2004, ZERO-G has flown over 175 missions, providing the weightless experience to more than 5,000 customers, including physicist Stephen Hawking. This is the identical weightless flight experience used by NASA to train its astronauts and used by Ron Howard and Tom Hanks to film Apollo-13.

The ZERO-G Experience™ consists of a brief training session for passengers followed by a 90-minute flight aboard G-Force-One, during which parabolic maneuvers are performed. The controlled ascent and descent of the plane allows Flyers to experience Martian gravity (1/3-gravity), Lunar gravity (1/6-gravity), and zero gravity. The ZERO-G Experience provides its Flyers with twice the amount of weightless time achieved in a typical sub-orbital flight into space.

The ZERO-G Experience, which includes training , a flight of 15 parabolas, flight suit, complimentary merchandise, awards, a post-event party, photos, and a DVD of the flight, is offered at a price of $3,950 per seat.

ZERO-G operates under the highest safety standards as set by the FAA (Part-121) with its partner Amerijet International of Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Aircraft operations take place under the same regulations set for large commercial passenger airliners.

ZERO-G is the first and only Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved provider of weightless flight to the general public. The company also provides flights to the film industry; corporate and incentive markets; the non-profit research and education sectors; and government. The company was co-founded, in 1993, by X PRIZE Chairman and space visionary, Peter H. Diamandis, M.D.; veteran astronaut, Byron K. Lichtenberg, Ph.D., and NASA Engineer Ray Cronise.

Upcoming flights are scheduled for San Jose and Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Since its launch in 2004, individual groups of family and friends to top-tier consumer brands like American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Cadbury Schweppes have chartered ZERO-G flights. The ZERO-G Experience builds deep common memories that no ordinary gravity-bound exercise can equal. The flights are also perfect for non-profit fund-raising auctions.

Ready to fly? To check seat availability on an upcoming flight or to reserve your space: www.GoZeroG.com.

ZERO-G is a wholly owned subsidiary of Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company. Space Adventures is the company that organized the flights for the world’s first private space explorers: Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Greg Olsen, Anousheh Ansari and Charles Simonyi, and is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts.

The company’s advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev.

For more information on the company, please visit www.SpaceAdventures.com.

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