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Couple first to wed in zero gravity
Saturday's wedding of Noah Fulmor, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, was broken into 30-second segments as the Zero Gravity Corp.'s modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft made parabolic arcs high in the atmosphere to simulate moments of weightlessness, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported.
"When you're floating, and it's under control, it's beautiful," Fulmor said after returning to Earth at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. "When you're twisting, all of a sudden someone has to grab you and steady you. There were moments that were absolutely as I had imagined them. The bouquet toss was as though it was staged in a movie, and we were watching it. It floated out and was caught effortlessly by one of the bridesmaids."
Richard Garriott, an investor in Zero Gravity Corp. and the son of an astronaut, officiated during the ceremony.
"It was a bit tricky," he said. "They had planned their own ceremony quite well. They broke it up into 30-second episodes of the wedding. For each parabola, we did one small exchange."
Garriott said it was the couple's love of space that led him to agree to officiate at the first zero gravity wedding.
"If there's a couple who should be doing this first, they're clearly the ones," he said. "Noah and Erin are huge space fans."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/23/2009
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06-25-2009 08:03
HDavis wrote:
Weightlessness not zero gravity
This is not "zero gravity" but a condition of "weightlessness" similar to that found on the space station or on the shuttle when in orbit. The "weightlessness" is caused by a continuous falling condition, not by a decreased gravitional pull.
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