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Alright, I know Christmas is still a few months away, but you’ll have to start saving now in order give this one to your person-who-has-everything. For just under $3,000, you can experience something previously only available to a select few. I’m daydreaming about making my own Apollo 13 style home movies onboard.

From a Wired story on the flights:
“The flights create microgravity environments by swooping along a trajectory that looks like the biggest roller coaster in the galaxy. Each modified Boeing 727-200 cargo jet climbs from around 25,000 to 39,000 feet, and each time it reaches the peak of that invisible arc, varying levels of weightlessness occur inside the craft, from “Martian” levels at a third of Earth gravity, to “moon” levels at one-sixth of Earth gravity, to absolute zero gravity.”

Just make certain you eat something that you won’t mind seeing later. Turns out your body isn’t used to this kind of thing.

Check out Zero G Inc. Sign me up!

If you don’t mind going to Russia, this might be fun.

Still more gift ideas.

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