Space Travel
The typical vacation will liberate you from the tedious orbit of the work day, but the 10-day space journey offered by Virginia-based Space Adventures blasts you from a launch pad in Kazakhstan into the actual orbit of the Earth, where gravity itself becomes obsolete as you circle the globe every 90 minutes. But if the thought of piggybacking on a Russian rocket for a cool $25 million grounds you, wait for a comfy chair on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, set to launch as early as 2009 with suborbital flights that will set you back $200,000.
Low-Adrenaline Alternative: Zero-gravity thrills at an even less-astronomical price ($3,950) are available in Fort Lauderdale through Zero G, where you can simulate weightlessness via the same parabolic-flight maneuvers used to film a buoyant Tom Hanks in Apollo 13.
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