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inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the old nickname for an airplane that basically flies up high, then nosedives for a while. They originally set it up so astronauts could train in free-fall (since they're, y'know, falling for a few minutes), though it seems like you can just hire them for whatever now. OK Go did a music video featuring a ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They also filmed some of the zero-g scenes for Apollo 13 in the Vomit Comet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s a bucket list item of mine to fly on and folks reaction to the name is never not funny