Looks pretty cool, until you look closer.....
Posted on 06/18/2020 3:08:47 PM PDT by DFG
Researchers, armchair astronauts and even brides and grooms looking for an out-of-this-world wedding experience will be able to celebrate, collect data or simply enjoy the view from an altitude of 100,000 feet in a balloon-borne pressurized cabin, complete with a bar and a restroom, a space startup announced Thursday.
"Spaceship Neptune," operated by a company called Space Perspective from leased facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, will carry eight passengers at a time on six-hour flights. The passenger cabin, lifted by a huge hydrogen-filled balloon, will climb at a sedate 12 mph to an altitude of about 30 miles high. That will be followed by a slow descent to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean where a recovery ship will be standing by to secure the cabin and crew.
Test flights carrying scientific research payloads are expected to begin in 2021. The first flights carrying passengers are expected within the next three-and-a-half years or so, with piloted test flights before that.
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Funny I just mentioned Huckleberry. This is the Company, Worldview that you paid millions and millions of dollars to. I just don’t understand how you guys put up with it.
Up, up and away...
Not really space, but still a cool high-altitude ride. And will it ever happen? So far no space tourism has ever happened besides Soyuz selling a few rides for tens of $ millions. Virgin Galactic is a decade behind schedule, Blue Origin crawls at a snail’s pace.
Now, what could go wrong?
Looks pretty cool, until you look closer.....
It was a political payoff, Gabrielle Giffords is married to Mark Kelly.
Our would-be leaders have no integrity. Sad.
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