On November 9th, 2005, I got my Space Adventure. IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY AND I'D DO IT AGAIN!! Wow. WOW. I got to fly in a Mig-25 to 25,000 meters, about 82,000 feet high, (25 kilometers, or about 15 miles high... woohoo!) at the top speed of about Mach 2.8 (2,131.4 miles per hour, 3,430.1 kilometers per hour... yeehaw!) ... In the gallery, you'll notice that I took a picture of the Altimeter and Speedometer every so often, But at the peak of speed and hight I did not, because that was the purest moment of Euphoria I've ever experienced... I was weightless for several seconds, I have no idea how long, really, which was caused by the arc of the Mig-25 going over it's peak, which also caused me to have a slight buzz...Looking down at the Earth and up at the Black. I was in Jerusalem five days before, but this was, BY FAR, a much Holier experience.
I also flew in a second Plane, the L-39, which is a subsonic acrobatic training plane. When I say I flew it, I mean that literally! After we got to about the hight you see me in in the third picture on page 5, he gave me control of the stick. Then we did some acrobatic flips and dives and stuff. I wasn't allowed to bring my camera on the L-39, due to all the acrobatics, but there are a few pictures of me in it and the Pilot at the end of the gallery. AWESOME!!!!!!
UDATE!
So I got the photos taken by the Space Adventures photographer, Dimo Korotayev, and I've mixed them in this gallery with my own... pretty much any picture with me in it, he took. Most of the others are mine.
I have recieved the video! I look retarded in all that get-up. I won't be handing out Michael the Space-tard videos to anyone, sorry.
2nd UPDATE! I, being technologically challeneged, just figured out how to capture frames of video as a JPEG file, and I've loaded a few such pictures from the video taken by the camera in the cockpit of the MIG-25 and the video from Space Adventures and interspersed them throughout the gallery.
I also flew in a second Plane, the L-39, which is a subsonic acrobatic training plane. When I say I flew it, I mean that literally! After we got to about the hight you see me in in the third picture on page 5, he gave me control of the stick. Then we did some acrobatic flips and dives and stuff. I wasn't allowed to bring my camera on the L-39, due to all the acrobatics, but there are a few pictures of me in it and the Pilot at the end of the gallery. AWESOME!!!!!!
UDATE!
So I got the photos taken by the Space Adventures photographer, Dimo Korotayev, and I've mixed them in this gallery with my own... pretty much any picture with me in it, he took. Most of the others are mine.
I have recieved the video! I look retarded in all that get-up. I won't be handing out Michael the Space-tard videos to anyone, sorry.
2nd UPDATE! I, being technologically challeneged, just figured out how to capture frames of video as a JPEG file, and I've loaded a few such pictures from the video taken by the camera in the cockpit of the MIG-25 and the video from Space Adventures and interspersed them throughout the gallery.
Mural Next to Entrance of Zhukovsky Air Base.
Flight Brief with Mig-25 pilot Alex Pavlov... this guy is apparently the best. And he doesn't like jokes. When I offered to tip him if he'd fly higher to try and break the Mig-25 altitude record, he just gave me a really dirty look and pretended I never said such a base thing. See me trying to act all cool in this photo? Yeah, that's called buttressing your failing defences.
...and of course, no one looks cool in this flight underwear. NO ONE. Not even Robert DeNiro, I bet.
This was a "urp!" after they hoisted that tight flight suit past me privies.
Tying me up good.
There's alot of things to pull tight on a flight suit.
There will be some inevitable comparisons to the Coptic Monk I got so many pictures of in Jerusalem... but this is a FLIGHT suit, not a MAGIC suit.
And yes, I'm a dork.
And yes, I'm a dork.
They made it seem so easy, but next it's my turn...
Man, I don't really belong here...
Okay, now it's my turn to put my own helmet and... all that other... head gear, stuff... on.
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