日本推出“太空婚禮”服務

A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap -- by blasting into space to exchange their wedding vows.

Each happy couple will spend 240 million yen (2.3 million dollars) for the ceremony in a small space vessel, which will shoot up 100 kilometres into the sky.

During the hour-long flight, the couple will spend several minutes in zero gravity during which they will exchange their vows with up to three guests present, said Taro Katsura, a spokesman for Japanese firm First Advantage.

The couple would perform most of the ceremony before takeoff "so that they can say their vows and look out the window," Katsura said.

The firm is offering the space marriages in a tie-up with US-based Rocket Plane, which will conduct the flights from a private airport in Oklahoma.

From the spaceship, the couple would probably be able to see the outline of the Earth although they will not be far enough into space to allow complete floating, Katsura said.

Space tourism has been seeing a boom of sorts since 2001, when American millionaire businessman Dennis Tito paid 20 million dollars to Russia's space agency to become the first person to pay his own ticket into space.

期待在太空舉行婚禮的新人可以美夢成真了。日本一家公司於本週二起開始接受“太空婚禮”預定。

想體驗“太空婚禮”的新人得支付2.4億日元（230萬美元）的費用，他們將乘坐小型太空飛船飛抵距離地面100公里的高空。

據推出此項服務的日本“第一優勢”公司的發言人桂太郎介紹，在一小時的飛行中，新人將在幾分鐘的失重狀態下交換婚誓，現場最多可有三名親朋見證。

桂太郎說，婚禮儀式的大部分程序將在起飛之前完成，這樣“新人們就有時間互立婚誓，並可欣賞艙外的風景”。

“第一優勢”公司與美國“火箭飛機”公司合作，推出了這項服務，搭乘新人的太空飛船將從美國俄克拉荷馬州的一個私人機場起飛。

新人們可在飛船內看到地球的輪廓，但由於高度不夠，他們不會處於完全漂浮狀態。

太空遊從2001年開始興起，當年，美國富商丹尼斯•蒂託向俄羅斯宇航局花2000萬美元遊太空，成爲首位自費太空遊遊客