A Tourist’s Guide To Spaceflight Training Jim Clash Lifestyle I write about culture and adventure sports. Follow Weightless training over Russia. COURTESY JIM CLASH Since Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos flew to space last month, the topic of how to train for such an experience has become front-and-center. It has been a long time coming, but suborbital space tourism is now a reality. The beauty of waiting more than a decade for my own VG flight is that there’s been plenty of time to train for it. While the training is not required - VG does work into its future astronauts’ program a few days of prep at New Mexico’s Spaceport America prior to the flight - I thought I would design my own regimen to replicate the real experience as best I could. That way when my seat number comes up - I should be on Flight 102, if not sooner - I’ll know what to expect. As I see it, there are three main areas to become familiar with: extreme air speed and altitude, weig