Mission Day One: Friday
From Germany you fly with Lufthansa via Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale/Florida- USA. You will attain with a very experienced Parabolic Flyer from Germany, who will inform you during the flight
about the mystical "weightlessness experience". After the customs-declaration you will met a German speaking guide, and a charter-bus will carry you to the "Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino" to Hollywood/Florida. We have reserve in this hotel two nights.
In the late evening after a dinner with the other tour-guests, you will have a meeting at the hotel bar. There you will hear about space and space flights in historical themes and about the planned Zero-G Flight at the next day. Don't go to bed too late, because on the next day you will get up very early for participate on your adventure.
Mission Day Two:Saturday
At 7 in the morning we met us in the hotel lobby, and there you met in a group with other guests the team and instructor from the "Zero-G Corporation".
The day starts with a light breakfast (if you like - you should eat a little bit, because your stomach should not be empty).
The CheckIn for the Parabolic Flight start at 8 am.
Starting from 8 o'clock you are made familiar upon the expirations of a parabola flight, and you get these expirations with the help of a Multimedia lecture explanation: An experienced NASA astronaut, who has already many space flights behind him, prepare you with all informations about the upcoming Zero G Flight onboard the Boein B727 and shows you films and photographys about the preceding Zero G Flight and other fascinated facts about human space flight. The American astronaut will be able to answer each question.
At 11:30 am you will have a light lunch.
At 1:00 pm is a training with your crew-trainer about safety instructions during your flight. He explained all things they are needed to know what will happens during your Zero-G Flight. At 2:00 pm is the take off of the Boeing B727 to the direction of the Gulf of Mexico, where you will have the experience of your life!
The flight duration is approx. 3 hours. In this time, you have enough possibilites, to feel Moon-G, Mars-G and Zero-G with the extraorninary feeling of the absolutely weightlessness. Your trainer are always besides you, also there is a flight-surgeon onboard who will take care of you, if you will feel sickness.
After the flight is ended, you will met with other crew-members and other guest to an "after show party" for a great dinner, and know you can fill up your stomach with all things, what you have missed during the day. You will recieve in a little ceremonie your special flight certificate, a picture CD with all pictures of your flight and other merchandise, who will remember you always onto your adventure onboard the Boeing B727. The party has an open end, and you can celebrate as long as you wish your experience.
Mission Day Three: Sunday
After the breakfast in the morning we drive with an comfortable bus in northern directions to the Cocoa Beach. For the afternoon there is planned to visit the very honoured "Astronaut Hall of Fame" at Titusville.
Titusville is the so called "Astronaut City", where from the 60ies on the American Astronauts live. You will visit in an special tour with your guide the John Glenn Memorias, a special place honoured to the American Astronaut, who was able to fly in 1962 as first American in space and circled around the Earth. The city invites you in a very typical style to make a shoppiong. Use the time for your own excursions. At late afternoon we drive you back to your hotel. The evening is free for own excursions and talkings. One overnight staying at the Holiday Inn Hotel at Cocoa Beach.
Mission Day Four: Monday
After the breakfast we will drive to the Kennedy Space Centre.
We will attain the "NASA Close Up Tour"
During this tour (duration 4 hours), NASA shows you all seeable things on the special areas: The greatest montage plant of the world, the so called VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building).
- the giant Rocket Crawler, with it the giant Saturn V Rockets were transporte from the VAB-Building to the Lauch Pads 39A and 39B. Hystorical launch pads from the Mercury- and Gemini-Rockets are also visit by us and added with the sightseeing of the giant landing-facility for the American Space Shuttles, if they came back from space missions.
You will have a very wide view from the Observation Gantry, an special builded launch pad, it is rebuilded as a visitor platform. Then, the absolute amazing highlight: you take a seat and you will have the experience from the last 3 minutes from the lift off of Apollo 8 Mission during a multimedia show, after that you will see the 111 metres long Apollo Saturn V Rocket in all details. You will never forget this rocket in your life time. At late afternoon we drive back to the hotel and we met at the hotel bar to a farewell dring, before we have to leave Florida at the next day.
Mission Day Five: Tuesday Today we say farewell. On midday you will depart from the International Airport of Orlando back to Germany.
Mission Day Six: Wednesday Arrival at Germany in the morning.