Such a mind-blowing idea of space travel, and you don’t have pocket deep
enough, Arizona based space travel company World View Enterprises plans
to offer a trip to the edge of space in a luxurious eight-seat capsule
for $75,000 per ticket. A balloon trip to space and back might be the
somewhat affordable includes three days of training and two and half
hour in space. The capsule will be lifted by a high altitude balloon
that will go up up to about 98,425 feet or almost
20 miles (30 Kilometers) and stay aloft for two hours before returning
back to Earth. That is not as high as Baumgartner's jumping point
128,100 feet or around 39 kilometers last year but much higher than one
can usually reach the average altitude for commercial
flights is about 9 to 10 KM above ground, or 30,000 to 40,000 feet. So
passengers will be in the midst of the few to have seen the curvature of
the Earth with their own eyes, can gaze at the astounding views, the
blackness of space, the brilliance of stars
and the thin veil of atmosphere enveloping our planet. Most interesting
the first flight is planned for 2016. Component testing has already
begun and sub-scale testing will soon be carried out as well. The space
capsule will be build up by Paragon Space Development
Corporation, which is developing technology for Inspiration Mars, a
501-day mission around Mars
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