This Luxury Space Balloon Lets You Glide 100,000 Feet Above the Earth With a Cocktail in Hand

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“Some people would love to go pre-dawn,” says Poynter, “so you can really experience the extraordinary sky and see the iconic blue line that separates the Earth below and space. There’s almost a crazy rainbow effect.”, high-altitude balloons have been around since the 1930s, when they were first employed for research and adventuring.

Spaceship Neptune’s 100,000-foot climb technically won’t reach space, but Poynter says it replicates the suborbital rocket experience but with a lot more luxury, while still giving passengers incredible views of the curvature of the Earth below and the blackness of space above. “The way we designed it was to make it as easy as boarding a commercial aircraft,” says Poynter. “We wanted our clients to sit back and enjoy the luxury experience.”

Splashdown pickup is via boat. After a successful test of its prototype in June, Space Perspective began selling tickets for flights beginning in 2024, at a cost of $125,000 per seat.

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