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$16,000+ apparently gets you a trip on a modified Boeing 727, designed to climb and drop quickly (the latter part to negate gravity for weightlessness), under the supervision of NASA. Bornrich.org reports the entire flight took 90 minutes, and involved 16 climbs and dives.

The newlyweds, both from New York and science fiction fans, said the next step was to deliver their first child in zero-gravity, to test the effects of weightlessness on neonatal existence. That was a joke, of course.

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Last week, the space agency auctioned off some 10 patents under its name. Looks like agency PR also work overtime to prep the talking heads. As manager of NASA’s innovative partnerships programs, Darryl Mitchell said: “It’s nice to get funds back that we can pump back into the program, but our primary task is to get these technologies out and create jobs and help the economy”.

Ah well, I may be wrong. In any case, here’s to hoping that the new patent owners will come up with useful things. At the very least, we may see some developments in the area of noise management, and at least one NASA researcher will enjoy the share of any royalties generated by a technology he came up with working for NASA. Full details available at discovery.com.

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