The space flight participant will be required to pass an aviation medical physical (except the eye test will not be as stringent as for a pilot), a G-force qualification, and be able to effectively communicate with the pilot for safety reasons.
This medical and physical screening will take place a month or more prior to flight, perhaps even earlier. Other enhanced training opportunities are also available for an additional cost, such as a flight in a zero-g aircraft, high speed flights in former military aircraft, altitude chamber experiences, and others.
A few days prior to flight, the participant will come to the flight location for a day of final preparations prior to flight, including space suit fitting and training, and final mission preparations and briefings.
The flight itself will be a 「pinnacle life event」 and start with suiting up in the astronaut preparation room, transport out to the fueled and ready spacecraft, ingress to the right seat of the cockpit, being connected to the life support systems in the cockpit, final mission safety briefing by your pilot astronaut, closing of the cockpit door, then a high speed take off from the runway.
You will then quickly fly upwards breaking the sound barrier after about 60 seconds then continue upwards faster and faster until you reach Mach 3.5 (almost 1000 meters per second).
Then the engine cuts off and you feel instant weightlessness, and see the blackness of space, and below you for 1500 kilometers in all directions the earth below.
For about 6 minutes you will experience space as so few people have before, and then you will renter the atmosphere pulling about 4 Gs for about 20 seconds then slow back through the sound barrier and then it’s a long glide back to the runway where you started from; after landing you will celebrate and be given your astronaut wings!
