ZERO-G’S WEIGHTLESS EXPERIENCE IS ONE-OF-A-KIND; M&MS ARE FREE

Astronaut training takes years, not to mention physics, math and engineering smarts. OK, so you have neither the time nor the credentials, but you do have $3,500?
Take a trip with Zero-G. The space entertainment and tourist company offers commercial weightless flights (FAA-approved) on board a modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft. Zero-G has been offering flights to the public since 2004, mainly in Florida. Already flying out of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it has 12 scheduled dates in Vegas this year — six flights each day, departing from Signature Air Terminal at McCarran International Airport.

Travelers are outfitted with flight suits for the 90-minute journey that includes 15 parabolas. Gravity levels include Martian (one-third gravity), lunar (one-sixth gravity) and weightlessness, with fliers bouncing around inside the padded fuselage.
Zero-G’s “astronauts” have been 12 to 85 years old. They get to keep their flight suits and an in-flight DVD, attend a post-event party, and gobble all the floating M&Ms they can snatch out of the air. Flights begin April 21. Information: www.GoZeroG.com or (800) 937-6480.

—Advertiser staff

HUNDREDS OF FOREIGN PHRASES

Turn your iPod into a portable translator by downloading McGraw-Hill’s iSpeak foreign language series. Instead of listening to your favorite music, you can use your iPod to hear and see up to 1,500 foreign phrases on CDs available in French, German, Italian or Spanish. Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese CDs will be available this summer. It’s as simple as listening to a song by your favorite artist: