[FPSPACE] Couple to wed in zero G

[Peter Pesavento]

>From Agency France Presse

 

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NY couple to be first to wed in zero gravity

 

Published: Wednesday June 3, 2009

 

A New York couple really will be on cloud nine when they marry later this
month: they'll exchange vows in zero gravity.

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan will be floating -- possibly upside down -- as
they say "I do" in a specially modified Boeing 727-200 departing Kennedy
Space Center at Cape Canaveral on June 20, a statement from Zero Gravity
Corporation said.

They will be "the first bride and groom to be married in zero gravity," the
company, a provider of commercial weightless flights, said.

"Richard Garriott, the sixth private explorer in history to go to space and
the first second-generation US astronaut, will officiate," the company said.

According to the statement, the aircraft's interior replicates levels of
weightlessness found on Mars or the Moon. "It's an experience unlike any
other."

Although the betrothed may have trouble with rings floating away, they'll at
least get out of the extreme setting unscathed.

The plane is "a zero-gravity playroom, complete with padded floors and
walls," said the statement.



 

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