{"id":110172,"date":"2020-07-19T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-startup-is-building-a-balloon-to-transport-tourists-to-the-edge-of-space-for-125000-see-what-the-spaceship-neptune-may-look-like"},"modified":"2020-07-19T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:23:46","slug":"a-startup-is-building-a-balloon-to-transport-tourists-to-the-edge-of-space-for-125000-see-what-the-spaceship-neptune-may-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-startup-is-building-a-balloon-to-transport-tourists-to-the-edge-of-space-for-125000-see-what-the-spaceship-neptune-may-look-like","title":{"rendered":"A startup is building a balloon to transport tourists to the \u2018edge of space\u2019 for $125,000. See what the Spaceship Neptune may look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-startup-is-building-a-balloon-to-transport-tourists-to-the-edge-of-space-for-125000-see-what-the-spaceship-neptune-may-look-like.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s first uncrewed flight will take place early 2021 and it is set to launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thespaceperspective.com\/for-immediate-release\/fly_to_edge_of_space\/\">Space Perspective<\/a> is building a balloon that will be able to transport passengers and research equipment to the \u201cedge of space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgin-galactic-ceo-high-speed-supersonic-hypersonic-space-tourism-travel-2020-6\">several companies looking to enter the emerging \u201cspace tourism\u201d marketplace<\/a>, but Space Perspective sets itself apart with its balloon design, named Spaceship Neptune. This balloon will accompany a pressurized and spacious cabin, creating a comfortable traveling experience for its passengers, according to its maker.<\/p>\n<p>The final goal is to carry passengers and research equipment to and from above 99% of the atmosphere, but its first flight in 2021 from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida will be unmanned. In order to accommodate these plans, Space Neptune\u2019s balloon will be the size of a football field and will release almost no emissions, according to its maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s first uncrewed flight will take place early 2021 and it is set to launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. Space Perspective is building a balloon that will be able to transport passengers and research equipment to the \u201cedge of space.\u201d There are several companies looking to enter the emerging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110172","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\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}