Space journey is now plain crusing for adventurers who don’t fancy blasting off in a rocket – they’ll go by balloon as an alternative.
Instead of battling g-forces and weightlessness as they’re propelled into the sky at 17,000mph overseas a conventional spacecraft, travellers can gently float to 18 miles excessive in a luxurious pressurised capsule.
It is fitted out with plush seats, 360 diploma panoramic home windows, a spa toilet and a bar. Neptune solely travels at 12mph – permitting eight visitors to face up and stroll round, sip cocktails, have a romantic dinner, throw events and even get married as they give the impression of being down on Earth.
It additionally has wifi so revellers can ping images of their journey straight again to family members down under. When the journey is over it gently floats again to Earth earlier than splashing down softly on the water subsequent to its floating launchpad.
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Bosses plan to supply overnights – making it the world’s first area resort – and promise a number of launches from oceans all around the world.
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Unmanned check flights have proved successful and Space Perspective – primarily based in Florida, US – plans to start out carrying passengers into the stratosphere subsequent 12 months.
The solely downer is tickets will price £100,000 every.
That has not stopped 1,750 individuals reserving journeys for 2025.
Co-founder Taber MacCallum reckons it is going to be an area flight game-changer.
“The area capsule is like nothing the world has ever seen,” he mentioned.
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“We are on the cusp of a staggering shift — not only in the way we humans experience space but also what we conjure in our minds when we think of the spaceship that gets us there.”
A company spokesman said the capsule will be the world’s only carbon-neutral spaceship.
“Spaceship Neptune is lifted to area by our SpaceBalloon, propelled by renewable hydrogen, with no rockets and not one of the related carbon footprint,” they mentioned.
“Rather than blasting off we rise slowly at 12mph making the expertise accessible to anybody medically match to fly with a industrial airline.
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“Our balloon is proven technology, used for decades already by our team on missions with NASA and other government agencies to lift research telescopes and other heavy, sensitive instruments.”
Co-founder Jane Poynter said: “If you may get on a industrial airplane you may get on Spaceship Neptune.
“That actually opens up the market enormously to people who otherwise don’t feel comfortable going on a rocket or just simply can’t go on a rocket but still want that extraordinary experience of seeing our Earth from space.”
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