Posted on 09/06/2007 5:34:53 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One may need extraordinary luck, strength, brains and good looks to get on a government-financed space ride like the one awarded to Ko San on Wednesday. For billionaires like Kim Taek-jin, however, there is a faster and less bothersome way: Buying his way into the mock flight experience.
Kim, the founder and CEO of NCsoft, will take a zero-gravity flight out of an airport in Texas this Friday, local time, the company said. He will be accompanied by 30 Koreans and some of the company's employees, who were lucky enough to be picked into the program.
The zero-gravity flight provides a weightless environment for around 30 seconds each time the Boeing 727 plane does a free fall from 10 kilometers above the ground. Passengers stay afloat in the air as if they are swimming in space.
(Excerpt) Read more at koreatimes.co.kr ...
You know, with all the crime going on in Paragon City, you’d think that he’d use that money to hire more cops rather than blowing it on himself. I mean, the ones they have now just stand there while a few feet away the Skulls spend a half hour trying to steal a woman’s purse...
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