{"id":109751,"date":"2020-07-09T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/florida-company-wants-to-start-offering-balloon-rides-to-the-edge-of-space"},"modified":"2020-07-09T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:42:19","slug":"florida-company-wants-to-start-offering-balloon-rides-to-the-edge-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/florida-company-wants-to-start-offering-balloon-rides-to-the-edge-of-space","title":{"rendered":"Florida company wants to start offering balloon rides to the edge of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/florida-company-wants-to-start-offering-balloon-rides-to-the-edge-of-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANCHORAGE, Alaska<\/strong> \u2014 A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth\u2019s surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Florida-based startup firm <a href=\"https:\/\/thespaceperspective.com\/for-immediate-release\/fly_to_edge_of_space\/\">Space Perspective<\/a> plans to use the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak to serve as one of the launch sites for the vehicle, called the Spaceship Neptune, The Anchorage Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/business-economy\/2020\/06\/28\/florida-based-startup-wants-to-fly-passengers-to-the-edge-of-space-beneath-giant-balloons-launched-from-kodiak\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon rides will be manned by a flight crew taking eight passengers in a pressurized capsule suspended beneath a hydrogen balloon the size of a football stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska \u2014 A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth\u2019s surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet\u2019s atmosphere. Florida-based startup firm Space Perspective plans to use the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak to serve as one of the launch sites for the vehicle, called the Spaceship [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}