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Space Perspective starts selling seats for balloon rides to stratosphere

They re $125,000 apiece. Space Perspective s Neptune One balloon-borne test vehicle took this photo from an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,000 meters) during the company s first test flight, on June 18, 2021. (Image credit: Space Perspective) You can now book a seat on a balloon ride to the stratosphere if you ve got pretty deep pockets. Florida-based company Space Perspective has started accepting seat reservations for its Spaceship Neptune, a balloon-borne pressurized capsule designed to carry eight passengers and one pilot to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 meters). The price: $125,000 per seat. Spaceship Neptune passengers will spend about six hours aboard the capsule during their flights, which will take them above 99% of

A company wants to send tourists to space using device similar to a balloon

Updated: 6:40 PM CDT Jun 23, 2021 Dan Billow Reporter The price of a trip to space is dropping, and you can buy a ticket today for $125,000.A new company offering high-altitude balloon flights has just made a successful test flight from the Space Coast. The sky is black. The horizon is curved. And you’ve got a 450-mile view in Spaceship Neptune, a space ship carried by a balloon. There are no rockets involved. No high G’s, any of that. This is smooth and gentle, said Jane Poynter, Space Perspective Chief Executive Officer.The balloon that’ll carry Neptune One made what its owners say is a successful test flight from the Cape last week. It flew across Florida, and for over six hours, offered space-like views from about 20 miles high, before splashing down in the Gulf. The generally accepted altitude of the edge of space is 60 miles. A balloon would actually be useless up that high. But Space Perspective, the company behind all this, say

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