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>> reporter: zero gravity flights have a reputation for being so-called vomit comets. but zero g says only 4% of their passengers actually get sick and kate upton wasnt one of them. >> kate was a dream up there. >> reporter: company president teres brewster notes the fuselage is padded so when gravity returns you dont get hurt. in her teeny weeny $35 bikinis from target she, was wearing less than sandra bullock did in "gravity." it seemed to be channelling the famous opening credit scene from "b...

Kate in the "sports illustrated" crew boarded g force one in florida for their top secret photo shoot. talk about manual labor. the plane climbed steeply, then dives. at the top of the hump, passengers experience weightlessness for about 30 seconds. and pay 5,000 bucks to fly up and down about 15 times. but now it was kate uptons turn. zero g or bust. >> twirling, i was upside down. it was one of my favorite experiences so far in my life. >> reporter: zero gravity flights have a reputation for b...

It makes it a little difficult to get in. there you go. >> once its on, ilc dover runs the suit through exercises to test its range of motion. >> as far as mobility, you have almost 180 degrees of rotational mobility. >> if the suit seems cumbersome now, keep in mind its dealing with earths gravity, 300-pound space suits are designed to work beth in a weightless environment. >> if youre in zero g, its a lot easier. you dont have to fight the g force where i am, where you have the whole suit on y...

Sky is black, you can see the curvature of space. youre actually not technically if outer space, but you would feel very much -- its a different feeling than being in an airplane. you stay up there for two hours, and then they cut the chord. then you come down. so youre in zero g, youre in free fall, youre weightless there for a little bit, and then the wind starts to catch the little parasail and, again, should. you do sort of a sideways glide back down to earth. harris: not that i want to be a...

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To astronauts on board the international space station and we also had a little bit of fun with those guys. >> i did a zero g flight off the coast of california and i know its a minuscule part of what you guys are going through, but i got to experience the weightlessness. are you strapped in to something thats keeping y ining you stil? or how are you not floating away on us? oh, there they go. they are floating away on us. so i thought you guys were going to be hooked in, but obviously youre not...

Enemies. >> everybody seems to get along better in space than on earth. there seems to be less politics, and youve got to make it all work. >> thats true. i flew with a russian air force colonel, as you know, and he became a lifelong good friend of mine, and i made several friendships in russia. and thats the way we fliers think of each other. we dont think of each other as youre on this side and im on that side. there is a common bond of being a flyer, especially a space flyer, and i felt the s...

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