
The Absence of Gravity
Zero G - Freestyle

1G Phase
2G Phase
0G Phase
2G Phase
1G Phase
Zero G Freestyle
The Absence of Gravity
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not offer Zero-G Flight expeditions in Star City/Russia with the Ilyushin-76MDK for the first half of 2021. Please understand! Available dates in the second half of 2021 are listed, and you can request them without obligation.
The dates listed are subject to change.We sit on the floor covered with sports mats and look at the interior of the colossal Ilyushin-76MDK (MDK is Russian for "Flying Laboratory")!
A group of people from different continents met here, yesterday we had the first chance to get to know each other when we had to undergo the medical examination at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. However, we all got the "Go for it!" Afterwards, we visited the Star City Museum and got to know the most famous person in Star City, Yuri Gagarin. Unfortunately, he had a fatal accident during a flight training in 1968, but his legacy is omnipresent!
Now we fly towards our destination, it seems to us like in a US-American heroic epic, but we are not heroes, because we do not yet know what is ahead of us. Theoretically, we know every detail, they have briefed us extraordinarily well. We still have the massive parachutes strapped in front of us which we only have to carry at the start, because there are no seats! So there are also no flight attendants, and there is nothing to eat and drink! There are also no toilets! In return, we get vomit bags, well, just in case!
After 20 minutes by plane, we can finally take off our parachutes and feel a little freer. However, this has nothing to do with weightlessness; we will learn later.
We are instructed to experience the first parabola without any significant movement, so we sit on the ground and hold on back to a kind of railing. Then, all of a sudden, we become heavier! For 20 seconds! The 2-G phase has it in it, we think. Also, then, the lighting changes and the first "Zero-G Phase" comes! The legs do what they want, we turn and do a headstand! That takes 30 seconds, then the double acceleration of gravity comes again, and then there is a break of three minutes, and we still have nine parabolas ahead of us!
We experience ten parabolas on board the largest parabolic aircraft in the world! At a place where space history has been written! We come into contact with space travel like in no other place in the world. We visit the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, and we visit the world-famous Monino Air Force Museum! We experience Russian hospitality, and also friendship that lasts a lifetime!
When it's over, we don't want to go home anymore. Five days here to see the world from a different perspective. Of course, this is also due to the parabolic flight!
Next Zero-G Expedition
SPACE AFFAIRS Zero-G Expedition 2021 - 3

July 18 to July 22, 2021 (TBD)
Participation Closure Date: May 21, 2021 (TBD)