If you are an adventure loving person and love to experience new heights in life with much excitements and want to feel elated by having done something unusual and thrilling then NASA’s commercial weightless flights  would be one of the best option for you.

NASA announced that this weekend it will start with its commercial weightless flights program. All the scheduled commercial flights have been completely booked in advance. Further bookings of these commercial weightless flights will be opened sometime during the later half of this year and flight schedules will be fixed accordingly. These flights will take off from the ‘Moffet Field’, California, according to NASA.

NASA and “Zero Gravity” of Las Vegas have entered in to an agreement for these commercial flights. This “reimbursable Space Act Agreement” between the two agencies, i.e. NASA’s “Ames” and ‘Zero-G’ will involve a permission to utilize the airfield facilities for undertaking these flights. Both the agencies have also agreed upon to carry out further research work in cooperation. This research will begin this fall, according to NASA.

“G-Force One” is the name of a specified and modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft which will be conducting its commercial weightless flights for the first time. This Saturday, this aircraft will have onboard the passengers who have booked their flights.

The weightless flights will make all these passengers feel the same feelings of weightlessness as the astronauts feel in such a situation when the aircraft or the spacecraft is orbiting the earth. Passenger will also be subjected to the same gravity conditions as the astronauts generally experience on the moon and the mars. Although the period of such weightlessness and gravity will not be for a longer time but it will facilitate with brief slots during the flight.

Passengers will be flying like a superman and will also be floating in midair in the same manner as the NASA astronauts perform actually at the NASA center, says Peter H. Diamandis, chairman of ZERO-G.

These flights will take off during the daytime only and it will not disturb any other concurrent programs of NASA. Zero-G will make all reimbursements all the costs for using the runway and other support facilities.”The Boeing 727-200 is one of the quietest aircrafts in service”, NASA said.

Commercial weightless flights were first offered by the Zero-G to the common people in the year 2006.Flights took off from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Zero-G conducted seven such flights every week and in all the company conducted 280 such flights in the year 2006. This time, with a new agreement with NASA, the company hopes to fulfill the growing demands of commercial space industry.

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