Space Perspective bills itself as the world?s first luxury spaceflight experience offering a trip to the edge in a panoramic, carbon-neutral vessel equipped with Wi-Fi.

Space Perspective bills itself as the ?world?s first luxury spaceflight experience company,? and the service may indeed be the wildest and most exclusive travel adventure one could embark upon today. Onboard a specially engineered capsule lounge, guests ascend to the upper limits of Earth’s stratosphere while sipping on drinks and nibbling foods while enjoying a room with a view unlike any other. Noteworthy still is the vessel’s carbon neutrality.

As reported after Space Perspective’s announcement in 2022, the luxury space balloon service invites guests onto the Spaceship Neptune, a teardrop-shaped pressurized capsule appointed with the creature comforts of a plush lounge and engineered to ascend to a 100,000-foot apex. That’s the height where our planet’s atmosphere meets outer space, about 3x higher than cruising altitude of a commercial airplane. Because the ascent and descent are handled by a balloon (larger than a football field) rather than a rocket, astronaut training is not required, nor does the trip incur the harsh physical stresses required of rocket flight.
The spaceship is optimized to comfortably seat eight “Explorers” and one pilot, with everyone given an unobstructed 360-degree panoramic view of Earth’s curvature.

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