Space Perspective , a new space tourism company , has announced its plans to take passengers and research shipment to the Earth ’s stratosphere using a space balloon and pressurized capsule . Spaceship Neptune , as it is cognize , will take up to eight passengers and one archetype on a six - hr troll trip-up from the terra firma , up to 100,000 feet ( 30.5 klick ) in the Earth ’s ambience , before splash back down into the sea quick for recovery . Although no toll point has been go down in stone yet , Space Perspective ’s CEO havereportedlysuggested that slate will ab initio be sold for around $ 125,000 .
Alluding to the “ overview effect ” , the mavin of witnessingplanet Earth from space , MacCallum and Colorado - CEO Jane Poynter want to make this experience accessible to as many citizenry as potential . “ Today , it is more essential than ever to see Earth as a satellite , a spaceship for all man and our spheric biosphere , ” Poyntersaid .
With an uncrewed test flight of stairs scheduled in early 2021 , Spaceship Neptune is first set to plunge from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida , but website such as Cecil Spaceport , Florida , and others in Alaska , Hawaii and internationally , are also a possibility in the time to come . Each onboard “ IE ” to make the journeying will connect an exclusive group of fewer than 20 people who have so far reachedEarth ’s stratospherein a space balloon .
Roughly the size of a football pitch , Spaceship Neptune ’s space balloon will be filled with hydrogen , and will transport place tourists and scientific payloads above 99 percent of Earth ’s atm , over twice as eminent as commercial K pilot . But , according to theSpace Perspectivewebsite , the experience will be “ as elementary as get on a carpenter’s plane . ” The capsule itself provide a “ shirt - arm ” environment , a recreation bar , access to social medium , and the all - crucial basin .
If this out - of - this - world experience has whet your appetite ( and you have a spare few hundred thousand ) , then you may earmark a seat on Spaceship Neptunenow .
