{"id":158997,"date":"2023-02-26T03:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/want-to-see-the-earth-from-a-stratosphere-balloon-this-startup-says-it-will-happen"},"modified":"2023-02-26T03:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T09:10:28","slug":"want-to-see-the-earth-from-a-stratosphere-balloon-this-startup-says-it-will-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/want-to-see-the-earth-from-a-stratosphere-balloon-this-startup-says-it-will-happen","title":{"rendered":"Want to see the Earth from a stratosphere balloon? This startup says it will happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/want-to-see-the-earth-from-a-stratosphere-balloon-this-startup-says-it-will-happen3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s safe, economical and gentle for people,\u201d Iwaya told reporters. \u201cThe idea is to make space tourism for everyone.\u201d He said he wants to \u201cdemocratize space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company, Iwaya Giken, based in Sapporo in northern Japan, has been working on the project since 2012 and says it has developed an airtight two-seat cabin and a balloon capable of rising up to an altitude of 25 kilometers (15 miles), where the curve of the Earth can be clearly viewed. While passengers won\u2019t be in outer space\u2014the balloon only goes up to roughly the middle of the stratosphere\u2014they\u2019ll be higher than a jet plane flies and have an unobstructed view of outer space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s safe, economical and gentle for people,\u201d Iwaya told reporters. \u201cThe idea is to make space tourism for everyone.\u201d He said he wants to \u201cdemocratize space.\u201d The company, Iwaya Giken, based in Sapporo in northern Japan, has been working on the project since 2012 and says it has developed an airtight two-seat cabin and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158997","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}