Space tourist Richard Garriott engaged a couple of American space enthusiasts in a ZERO-G plane that performed zero-gravity maneuvers
The ceremony was conducted by Richard Garriott who was the sixth private space tourist to fly to the first space station and the first American astronaut who is also the son of an astronaut. "I am honored to take part in Erin and Noah's wedding. I know from my experience the additional thrill that the lack of gravity will play in events that are exciting in the least" Garriott said. "The excitement of the wedding in microgravity will not disappear in the minds of all the participants of the wedding celebration."
The plane flew in parabolas that allowed its passengers to experience 20-30 seconds of zero gravity at a time, in total, for a period of almost eight minutes, the blessings, flowers and rings were exchanged in a microgravity environment. The interior of the plane contains walls and a floor coated with soft materials to contain the floaters between the microgravity sections. Video cameras recorded the event.
Virgin Galactic and Rocketplane Global have announced plans to offer weddings in space, with each's spaceplanes ready to take passengers to a runway (Virgin Galactic hopes to begin public space flights in 2010), but for now, ZERO-G is The only company that enables the experience of gravity without flying into space.
Before the start of the ceremony, the plane climbed to a height of 24 thousand feet. The pilot began to pull up, and gradually raise the angle of the plane to 45 degrees compared to the horizon and reached an altitude of 34 thousand feet. During the climb, the passengers felt a gravity of 1.8G. Then the plane fell, thereby creating zero gravity in this section of the parabola. For the 20-30 seconds everything in the plane felt a lack of gravity. A straight and gentle flight section allowed people to stand on the floor of the plane. The maneuver was repeated 12-15 times, segments of 10 miles each (16 km).
Fulmore and Finnigan are space buffs, and both wanted to be astronauts when they were kids. Erin attended space camps in Michigan while Noah volunteered at the local planetarium. Although they live a relatively mundane life, the idea of space came up again following their engagement in 2008.
When we started talking about marriage, Noah joked and said that we should get married in space," said Erin. "Even though most of the girls understood that Noah didn't want to get married, I knew he was serious, and that this was a serious request."
The wedding took place in the sky above Florida. ZERO-G operates flights from the Bristow Airlift in Titusville, the ferry landing strip at Cape Canaveral and the Signature Terminal at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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But you can organize yourself and what you can say in 12-15 seconds
We will see them get married at a temperature of zero degrees Kelvin.
And if they are already drifting then they found the zero point G
Zero alliance G.
Meir:
I also thought about the subject when I saw the article and the phrase "wedding at zero Meshgal" popped into my head.
I will not list the variety of reactions on the subject that are evoked by Yosef Hermati's words and name 🙂
I wonder how you do what a young couple does after the wedding in zero gravity 🙂
24 thousand feet…. 34 thousand feet….. Listen, not everyone is born a pilot and not everyone is savvy in these units, is it so difficult to write down the height in kilometers for people who are less savvy?