Brooklyn couple to wed in zero gravity
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From New York, USA.
A Brooklyn couple will become the first on the planet to say “I do” in zero gravity when they tie the knot later this month.

Self-confessed sci-fi addicts Noah Fulmore, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, will travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to exchange their vows while literally walking on air.

“We would really prefer to do it in space or on Mars but living in the time that we do, this was the closest we could get to zero gravity,” Fulmore said. “We were shocked to discover no one had done it yet.”

The Williamsburg residents will be joined June 20 by a handful of friends in a plane owned by the Zero Gravity Corporation’s - the only federally approved provider of commercial weightless flights.

Space tourist and adventurer Richard Garriott, the son of an astronaut, will officiate at the ceremony during the 90-minute flight.

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  1. Edith says:
    June 8, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    What a time we live in. I remember reading the news about the rockets that were being sent into space from Woomera in the late fifties. How far we have come since then!

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