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For Immediate Release
Contact: Jane Reifert
Sarasota, FL
800-644-7382 / 941-346-2603
Adventurers Train for Space in an American Fighter
Jet
at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Incredible Adventures is teaming up with Starfighters Aerospace
to offer suborbital flight training featuring the Lockheed F-104
Starfighter, the same jet used to prepare an entire generation
of astronauts for space travel. Training takes place at the John
F Kennedy Space Center, near Orlando, Florida.
Sarasota, FL (PRWEB)
November 11, 2009 -- You no longer have to be an astronaut to
train for space at one of NASA's premier space facilities. Incredible
Adventures is teaming up with Starfighters Aerospace to offer
a four day commercial space flight training program at NASA's
John F Kennedy Space Center, near Orlando, Florida. Flight Training
is open to anyone who meets basic age, health and security clearance
requirements.
Adventurers train for space in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Adventurers train for space in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Participants will train for space in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter,
the same jet used to prepare Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Astronauts
for space travel. The four-day program offered by Incredible Adventures
and Starfighters Aerospace is designed to prepare participants
for the physical and emotional demands of a suborbital flight.
 Two
days of intense academic instruction and safety briefings prepare
and qualify participants for a high-speed training flight in the
Starfighter on day three. The flight profile simulates a journey
to astronaut altitude and includes a vertical climb and maneuvers
replicating the g-forces and weightlessness of space travel. The
program concludes with a VIP tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
In October, Starfighters, Inc. signed a historic Space Act Agreement
with NASA, granting the Florida-based company permission to use
NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility for commercial flight operations.
The agreement gives Starfighters Aerospace access to one of the
largest runways in the world and the right to use special, restricted
airspace for its flight training operations.
Incredible Adventures, another Florida-based company, has been
selected to oversee sales and marketing of the new space flight
training programs. Incredible Adventures has been selling air
and space adventures since 1993 and is best known for sending
its customers to the edge of space in Russian MiGs. The company
was the first to offer commercial zero-gravity flights and hands-on
space training through the Russian Space Agency. Now, through
its relationship with the Starfighters Aerospace, Incredible Adventures
becomes the first to offer space flight training featuring an
American fighter jet.
The basic cost of the four-day training program at Kennedy Space
Center is $30,500 and includes security clearance, academic instruction,
use of training equipment and one training flight in the F-104
Starfighter captured on high-definition video. More advanced space
flight training, including an additional F-104 training flight,
is $48,750.
For more information, contact Incredible Adventures at 941-346-2603
or visit
www.incredible-adventures.com.
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