{"id":660,"date":"2008-08-24T23:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-08-24T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T06:26:25","slug":"a-vomit-comet-ride-is-now-under-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/24\/a-vomit-comet-ride-is-now-under-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vomit Comet Ride Is Now Under $5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I would love to sky dive &#8211; something that I have never done &#8211; I think I would rather take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gozerog.com\/\">Zero G parabola flight.<\/a> First, because it&#8217;s safer, and second, because it simulates being an astronaut, floating around a contained space.  It is more expensive than sky diving but a hell of a lot less than a ride on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/flash.html?language=english\">Virgin Galactic<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gozerog.com\/faq.htm#23\"> The ZERO-G Experience,<\/a> which includes a flight of 15 parabolas [each gives you 30 seconds of weightlessness], flight suit, complimentary merchandise, awards, a post-event party, photos, and a DVD of the flight, is offered at a price of $4,950 per seat.<br \/>\nThe Zero G site says that by the end of the flight you will log about 7 to 8 minutes of reduced gravity &#8211; that&#8217;s about as much zero-gravity time as Alan Shepard experienced on America&#8217;s first human spaceflight.<br \/>\nIn case you were wondering, a Virgin Galactic doesn&#8217;t provide weightlessness, only a sick view and experience, and costs $200,000.<br \/>\nVia Neu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I would love to sky dive &#8211; something that I have never done &#8211; I think I would rather take the Zero G parabola flight. First, because it&#8217;s safer, and second, because it simulates being an astronaut, floating around a contained space. It is more expensive than sky diving but a hell of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[237,589],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-flying","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}