Yet people want to go to space, to look back at Earth, to experience weightlessness.

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Initially launching from Mojave, California, participants will get a view from the edge of space for several minutes and briefly experience weightlessness.

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From there, the company says, passengers will experience the feeling of weightlessness and see a view of the Earth that spans a 1, 000 miles in any direction.

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Robots are much easier to feed, experience little trouble when subject to prolonged weightlessness, and are much easier to shield from radiation.

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