Space Perspective is hoping to have commercial operations underway in 2025, but a seat on the luxurious balloon is gonna cost you.
The dream, if you can call it that, of ballooning to not-quite-space, has gotten closer. Space Perspective, a company founded with the goal of floating people high in the Earth’s atmosphere in lavish style, announced a successful test run of their Neptune vehicle.
“This flight successfully demonstrated the extraordinary accessibility of Spaceship Neptune’s spaceflight experience with its gentle ascent, descent and splashdown, a critical step in opening space up to more people than ever before possible,” said Space Perspective founder Jane Poynter in the press release. “Our advances in marine spaceport technology, spacecraft design, and flight safety are setting truly new standards for the future of space exploration.
revealed its own vehicle, which it claimed would allow tourists to visit the middle part of the Earth’s atmosphere. One major drawback of the not-quite-space balloon is the incredibly cramped conditions, for which customers would pay $180,000 to stuff themselves into for a several-hour trip. The Neptune option isn’t just cheaper; concept art for the balloon reveals panoramic windows, a decked out interior, climate-controlled cabin, wi-fi, and martinis ., too, which one staffer touted as an opportune place for the “ultimate kind of selfie experience.” If a decadent pooping experience isn’t on your list of musts, the budget option appears to be a company called World View, which announced in 2021 that it would begin operating balloon flights in early 2024 at $50,000 a pop.
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