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Soon Tourists Could Be Traveling To The Stratosphere In A Space Balloon - IFL Science
Space Perspective, a new space tourism company, has announced its plans to take passengers and research payloads to the Earth’s stratosphere using a space balloon and pressurized capsule. Spaceship Neptune, as it is known, will take up to eight passengers and one pilot on a six-hour round trip from the ground, up to 100,000 feet (30.5 kilometers) in the Earth’s atmosphere, before splashing back down into the ocean ready for retrieval. Although no price point has been set in stone yet, Space Perspective's CEOs have reportedly suggested that tickets will initially be sold for around $125,000.
“Following the return of human spaceflight from US soil just a few weeks ago, people have never been more excited about space travel,” founder and Co-CEO Taber MacCallum said in a statement. “Few endeavors are more meaningful than enabling people to experience the inspiring perspective of our home planet in space for the betterment of all, and that’s what we are accomplishing with Space Perspective.”
Space Perspective, a new space tourism company, has announced its plans to take passengers and research payloads to the Earth’s stratosphere using a space balloon and pressurized capsule. Spaceship Neptune, as it is known, will take up to eight passengers and one pilot on a six-hour round trip from the ground, up to 100,000 feet (30.5 kilometers) in the Earth’s atmosphere, before splashing back down into the ocean ready for retrieval. Although no price point has been set in stone yet, Space Perspective's CEOs have reportedly suggested that tickets will initially be sold for around $125,000.
“Following the return of human spaceflight from US soil just a few weeks ago, people have never been more excited about space travel,” founder and Co-CEO Taber MacCallum said in a statement. “Few endeavors are more meaningful than enabling people to experience the inspiring perspective of our home planet in space for the betterment of all, and that’s what we are accomplishing with Space Perspective.”