{"id":137518,"date":"2022-03-30T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/space-tourism-huge-balloon-with-a-bar-to-take-tourists-to-space-for-125000-a-ticket"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:56","slug":"space-tourism-huge-balloon-with-a-bar-to-take-tourists-to-space-for-125000-a-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/space-tourism-huge-balloon-with-a-bar-to-take-tourists-to-space-for-125000-a-ticket","title":{"rendered":"Space tourism: Huge balloon with a bar to take tourists to space for $125,000 a ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-tourism-huge-balloon-with-a-bar-to-take-tourists-to-space-for-125000-a-ticket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine gliding into space in a pressurized capsule via a huge balloon the size of a football stadium. That\u2019s how one startup plans to take tourists on suborbital journeys 100,000 feet above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers will be able to observe stunning views during a six hour journey. They will also be able to sip on cocktails from a bar aboard the vessel. (Yes, there\u2019s a bathroom.) <\/p>\n<p>The voyage will happen \u201cvery gently and smoothly\u201d and provide passengers \u201cthe quintessential astronaut experience,\u201d Jane Poytner, co-founder and co-CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceperspective.com\/?atrkid=V3ADWF95DD0F9_126951591747_kwd-833297783694__583501339618_g_c___&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3IqSBhCoARIsAMBkTb13T0tbsS18RXa8v3oAbXg1pVAWE2ntTXFP-jT2QRFoZM7Z5qpLTYoaApZ-EALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Space Perspective,<\/a> told Yahoo Finance Live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine gliding into space in a pressurized capsule via a huge balloon the size of a football stadium. That\u2019s how one startup plans to take tourists on suborbital journeys 100,000 feet above Earth. Passengers will be able to observe stunning views during a six hour journey. They will also be able to sip on cocktails [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137518","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}