Your Dream is alive!
- Touch the Moon & Shuttle LiftOff - Smithsonian-Museum
in Washington, D.C.
- Your own Zero G Flight - Space Shuttle LiftOff at Cape Kennedy/Florida
- Touch the Moon in Houston
Fly with us in the past, the present and the future of space flight!
Experience space travel history purely in the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum in Washington.
Experience afterwards the resumption of the shuttle starts live and locally at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. After the Columbia misfortune in February 2003, the start of this missions are a special highlight in manned space flight, the crew of the Space Shuttle will fly to space to remain to test new rescue possibilities for space shuttle crews and to accomplish a "Logistic Flight". Space Shuttles will dock at the International Space Station ISS. You will see the lift off of the American Space Shuttles in some kilometres distance (and on special request on the VIP-stage at the world famous countdown-clock of the Kennedy Space Centre).
After that, you can touch the Moon: At the Johnson Space Centre in Houston/Texas, where the Flight Control of all manned space flights is located, you will see the past, the present and the future of manned space flight and space exploration!
This and other highlights you will see during a unique "space trip".
Go deep inside the space history, at places, where 1969 history was written, as Neil A. Armstrong as first men was set the first step onto the Moon with his remarkable words: "It's a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind!"
The world of yesterday, of today, of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You will attain during this voyage from a famous space expert, who will explain you all technical and historical steps inside the American space flight. You will see the facilities, who scientists and engineers are developing space station, space ships and other special things.
Since August 2004 the American corporation"ZeroGravity" possesses official permission, to be able to offer from the USA parabola flights. These flights are starting from Ft. Lauderdale (200 Kilometres in the south of Orlando).
Beside the Russian Ilyushin 76 MDK, this airplane possesses singular possibilities of leading you into weightlessness. American space agency NASA used since for years now a specialized Boeing 707 (KC 135) for the training in weightlessness for their Astronauts. The space conditions inside the Boeing B727-200 are the same as in NASA's KC 135.
From Fort Lauderdale, you will start , and you are scarcely in half an hour above the Gulf of Mexco. You sit buckled on comfortable seats as in a jet-liner(in the front section of the Boeing B727) and your pilot take you on a flight altitude of 6,500 meters. After that, that everything onboard is checked, you can move freely inside.
Then, the pilots gives the jet-engines full thrust and pulls the machine in a 47 degree angle upward - you feel the g-forces, which affect you (up to 2G).
Then the pilot takes the gas away; the machine begins to fall in a parabola and everything on board becomes weightless!
You move with your instructor within your assigned group completely freely in different sections of the interior. Here there are three ranges, where different groups achieve exercises in weightlessness. Altogether 15 parabolas are flown, including 1/6 G (moon) and 1/3 G (Mars). In calm consequence the other parabolas follow, and you will be only surprised, where down, in front, in the back above or on the right is.
A unforgettable Adventure!