Engaged couple’s walking on air
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Like many couples, Alexander Loucopoulos and Graciela Asturias felt like they were floating when he proposed to her. But they really were -- on a 90-minute zero-gravity flight aboard a Boeing 727. The trip cost $3,500 for each.
“I was afraid the ring would float really far away,” said Loucopoulos, 32, a New York banker.
He said that when he asked Asturias, a 27-year-old space enthusiast and architect, to marry him Saturday, “the ring just floated in front of her as we floated in zero gravity.” She said yes.
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