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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Joy rides
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 15:58:23 EST
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In article <547@ssc-vax.UUCP> gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell) writes:
>
>On the subject of Joy rides, if the object is weightlessness, how
>about parabolic plane rides. NASA uses it to train astronauts, and
>from the films that I've seen it looks pretty fun.
>I wanna go for a ride!!!
>
>Gregg Lobdell
>Boeing Aerospace
>Seattle, WA 
>{decvax,ihnp4}!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!gml

Yes, it does look like fun. However, it costs a lot of money to fly it,
and when NASA sends it up for 40 parabolas, it flies 40 parabolas, whether
the people inside are begging to stop or not. They don't call it the
"Vomit Comet" for nothing, y'know.

--MKR