A hot air balloon in Space: the flight among the stars of Space Perspective will cost 125 thousand dollars

After Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, a new company is about to appear in the field of space tourism: the Space Perspective. The latter does not use rockets or spacecraft for its flights but a polyethylene ball with a diameter of about 100 meters (it is the length of a football field) that carries a bulb-shaped cabin at a speed of about 20 km per hour (a bit like the rhythm of a leisurely bike ride). The elegant pressurized room called Neptune has a 360 degree view and includes a bar and bathroom. There is also Wi-Fi. Eight passengers and one pilot will sit in reclining seats. The Neptune capsule technically will not reach Space (the ascent will stop at 30 km of altitude): it will be a suborbital flight like the one carried out by Richard Branson last July. After testing the prototype in June, Space Perspective began selling tickets for flights at a cost of $ 125,000. It will start flying by 2024 but at the moment the project is only on paper.