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Showing Original Post only (View all)This Luxury Space Balloon Lets You Glide 100,000 Feet Above the Earth With a Cocktail in Hand [View all]
https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/space-ballon-taking-passengers-into-sky-with-luxe-amenities-1234632177/If youre looking for the fury and vibration of a rocket, youve come to the wrong place, says Jane Poynter, cofounder of Space Perspective. Our Spaceship Neptune offers a gentle ride into space that lets clients absorb the astronaut experience.
The football-field-sized space balloon carrying the bulbous cabin into the sky at 12 mph (picture the pace of a leisurely bike ride) is in market contrast to the thunderous Flash Gordon blastoffs of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Spaceship Neptunes swanky, pressurized lounge is a panopticon of windows and includes a bar and bathroom. Theres even Wi-Fi. Instead of g forces gluing fliers to their seats, eight passengers and one pilot will sit in recliners, chatting and sipping cocktails as they gradually zoom out on Kennedy Space CenterSpaceship Neptunes home portuntil it becomes the Florida peninsula, then the East Coast and, eventually, a grand view of Earth itself.
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. Theres almost a crazy rainbow effect.
Tested and used by NASA, high-altitude balloons have been around since the 1930s, when they were first employed for research and adventuring. Poynter and her husband, Taber MacCallum, cofounder of Space Perspective, developed and launched the space balloon that carried Alan Eustace to his record-breaking parachute jump of 135,980 feet in 2014.
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I would point out that the term "space" is being used very loosely here, as it only goes up to around 20 miles in altitude.
Tickets? $125,000 per seat.
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This Luxury Space Balloon Lets You Glide 100,000 Feet Above the Earth With a Cocktail in Hand [View all]
Dial H For Hero
Sep 2021
OP
Domestic consumption of helium is 40 million cubic feet per year. I don't think a single balloon
Dial H For Hero
Sep 2021
#3
Where's the complaining that people shouldn't have this kind of money to spend?
brooklynite
Sep 2021
#6
Just wow! What an exciting excursion that would be. Great post. Thanks!
RestoreAmerica2020
Sep 2021
#10