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Bored of star cruises and private island vacations? How about a space trip?
Here's announcing a one-of-its-kind of a high-altitude escapades launched exclusively for the leisure class people, who wouldn't mind frittering a whopping $75,000 on a balloon flight. But mind you, this ain't any ordinary air trip!
A new space tourism company, World View Enterprises takes space vacationing to a whole new different level altogether. The company has launched a super-pricey sail-up trip, where in six people can travel 19 miles above Earth in a suborbital spaceflight in a capsule attached to a high-altitude balloon in just 90 minutes flat. Not just that, in the 2-hour-long sail, you can gaze down the Earth's blue surface while you sip on a beverage of your choice, for an over-the-space experience.
The tourism company has plans to loft passengers to the stratosphere as early as 2015.
“This is a very gentle flight that will last for hours aloft,” said Jane Poynter, World View’s chief executive.
The cabin, whicj would be about the size of that of a private jet, would be “superbly comfortable, luxurious interior where you can get up and stand upright and move around and go back to the bar and get a drink,” she further revealed.
In the last few years, space tourism companies like Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace have launched suborbital rocket trips to space. And the response has been enormous with the first flight scheduled for early next year. But rocket rides, are essentially, very fast and tumultuous and don't quite leave you with enough time on the space.
In contrast, World View’s balloon and capsule ride, with six passengers and two crew members aboard, “would take about an hour and a half to reach altitude and then drift for a couple of hours before the balloon was jettisoned and the capsule would glide back to Earth beneath an inflated parasail,” writes the New York Times.
Going by the true nature of the ride, it truly sounds like a transformative human experience for sure!
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