BE MY GUEST

INSPIRATION
The Extra Mile
SPACE RACE
So you’ve ticked off every continent, every five-star hotel
and every Michelin-starred restaurant in the world. What
next? Perhaps the most extreme new type of travel is the
zero gravity kind. Companies like S3 offer the chance
for thrillseekers to experience weightlessness on one of
their ZeroG flights – departing from various locations
worldwide, including Hong Kong in 2015. Richard Joye,
head of business development at S3, explains, “Everyone
can freely float just like an astronaut in the course of 15
parabolas, each providing between 20 and 25 seconds of
reduced gravity or weightlessness over the 90-minute
flight duration.”
Passengers can take their pick between the party zone,
the premium zone and the VIP zone – which holds
12 passengers at a total cost of around HK$535,000.
Each passenger receives an S3 Breitling watch and the
knowledge that they have experienced something that
few other mortals ever will in their lifetime. After years
of preparation, safety is no longer a concern as Richard
explains, “These flights are very safe. The main space
agencies [NASA, ESA, Roscosmos] have been operating
them for several decades, and our modified aircraft is
certified for parabolic flights and is more precise than
other platforms presently available.”
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