A closer look
Commercial zero-gravity flights operating out of several American airports offer tourists the chance to experience true weightlessness by flying a modified Boeing plane in aggressive, stomach-churning parabolic arcs. For thousands of dollars, passengers get to float around a padded cabin for brief thirty-second intervals, desperately trying to catch droplets of water in their mouths like uncoordinated space golden retrievers. The maneuver famously induces such severe motion sickness that the aircraft is colloquially known as the Vomit Comet, requiring staff to hand out heavy-duty air sickness bags before takeoff. It is truly remarkable that people willingly pay an absolute fortune to experience the exact physical sensation of falling out of the sky while violently fighting the urge to throw up their breakfast
