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A total of 28 people aboard Zero-G's fully booked inaugural flight will feel temporarily freed from the Earth's gravitational pull for 30-second intervals after take off from
The aircraft will reach altitudes of more than 9,150 meters.
"We fly a commercial altitude similar to any
Passengers on board the G-Force One aircraft will be seated at the back of the cabin for take-off before being able to move to the empty front portion to float around for up to 15 parabolas, a series of dives and climbs that produce the zero gravity effect inside the plane.
A five-hour flight on the specialized plane, on which passengers can experience zero-gravity, lunar gravity and martian gravity, comes in at a cost of
"Zero-G definitely fits into the space tourism room as far as we are trying to make space accessible for all," Pearson added.
The ticket price is stratospheres lower than those offered by companies such as
Specialist media outlets have quoted the price of a ticket on board
In July last year, an anonymous customer spent
The buyer later had to reschedule, which paved the way for 18-year-old
Billionaire
Space lovers with slightly tighter budgets can from 2024 take a trip on board the World View's Stratospheric Capsule, which for a cost of
With more companies looking to cash in on the space tourism race, the days where only astronauts got to experience the zero gravity of our cosmos look to be numbered.
Zero-G said that demand for space tourism packages sky-rocketed in the wake of Branson and Bezos' respective flights last year.
The billionaire space race does have some precedence, however. Back in 2001, American businessman
He was followed by
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