Passenger balloon ride o 30 km high

foghorn · Dec 13, 2020

This sounds great.
Even though there's no weightlessness experience , I would still prefer it to the passenger rocket trips in the pipeline.

Although ''Not quite to space'', the selling point for me is "It affords the time and mental space to absorb the experience of being up there,"

Two hours going up, two hours viewing and two hours descending.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/202...nds-will-conduct-first-test-flight-next-year/

Inside this Neptune craft, a pilot and eight passengers will spend about two hours ascending to 30km, above 99 percent of the atmosphere. From this vantage point, beneath a balloon with the diameter of a US football field, the passengers would spend about two hours experiencing the view and "Earth overview" effect. Neptune would then take about two hours descending back to Earth. Envisioned to be nearly 5 meters across, the reusable Neptune is designed to fly as much as once per week. Only the parachute is discarded after each flight. The company plans to start selling tickets for this experience in 2021 and intends to begin commercial flights in 2024. In an interview, Space Perspective co-founder Jane Poynter said the company has not set a final price, but tickets would likely cost on the order of $125,000 per passenger
Not quite to space
The company plans to start selling tickets for this experience in 2021 and intends to begin commercial flights in 2024. In an interview, Space Perspective co-founder Jane Poynter said the company has not set a final price, but tickets would likely cost on the order of $125,000 per passenger. This is less than half of what Virgin Galactic is charging for its short, suborbital flight to 80km, and likely significantly less than what Blue Origin plans to ask for rides in its New Shepard vehicle, which will take customers above 100km for a few minutes.

By contrast, Space Perspective will not take customers into "space," nor provide them with a period of weightlessness. However, the company's flight profile will deliver an extended six-hour ride. Poynter said this extended period of time separates her company from other space tourism ventures. "It affords the time and mental space to absorb the experience of being up there," she said.
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Ps. I tandem jumped from a plane (twelve thousand feet) a few years back, so you could say I have EVA experience if anything goes wrong.

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