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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950611
Author:EDWARD GUNTS

MARNE-LA-VALLEE, France The French novelist Jules Verne was known for his vivid imagination, but even he may not have been able to envision anything as wickedly exhilarating as this:

Twenty-four people are locked into a streamlined rocket ship that is loaded into a giant cannon, which shoots them into space with a thunderous "Boom!"

After experiencing a brief period of weightlessness, they endure a harrowing series of twists and turns in total darkness, including a treacherous corkscrew loop that leaves stomachs churning. They're forced to dodge a meteorite shower, a hail of asteroids, ...

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