The couple met at the Hollywood Palace when Flight author Bonta was a VIP guest at the first Yuri`s Night World Space Party. He is an engineer mostly involved with aerospace.
It was rumored a meeting of minds and chemistry for these two, they married within months of meeting. Two years later, Newcomb designed the rocket engine computer for the famous SpaceShipOne, the first privately launched manned spaceship that won the first X Prize (a noted space prize).
They`ve been spotted in Italy, Greece, and once in Africa for a solar eclipse.
Vanna insisted he join her when the National Space Society invited her to a maiden zero gravity flight in 2004. It was on that flight that Bonta saw a future need for humanity as it migrates to space and invented the
2Suit. The flight garment that can secure people to each other for work or play in floaty zero gravity environments was the subject of a
MSNBC news feature in 2006 and later a documentary.
In 2008, Bonta was approached by The History Channel`s Universe series to be interviewed about her invention. The television series pioneered the manufacture and zero-gravity testing of the first 2Suits (two-suits). The show premiered on
The History Channel in Dec. 2008, with Vanna and her husband on the history-making first official mission to test human intimacy in extreme environments for humankind`s migration into space.
Allen Newcomb romantically named a lunar lander spaceship he designed for a NASA competition after the fictional spaceship in Bonta`s first novel of the Flight series, and attributed her as his inspiration.
Are we seeing a theme here yet? This couple is starry-eyed love but the meeting of high power minds is known to spark heated friction.
[thanks ozzy and tyne for contributing]
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