{"id":183591,"date":"2024-02-25T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/luxury-space-tourism-company-shows-off-its-capsule-designed-to-float-to-the-edge-of-space-with-a-massive-balloon"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:26:20","slug":"luxury-space-tourism-company-shows-off-its-capsule-designed-to-float-to-the-edge-of-space-with-a-massive-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/luxury-space-tourism-company-shows-off-its-capsule-designed-to-float-to-the-edge-of-space-with-a-massive-balloon","title":{"rendered":"Luxury space-tourism company shows off its capsule designed to float to the edge of space with a massive balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/luxury-space-tourism-company-shows-off-its-capsule-designed-to-float-to-the-edge-of-space-with-a-massive-balloon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest offering in space tourism promises to be a lot less bumpy.<\/p>\n<p>Space Perspective, a Florida-based startup, recently unveiled a test capsule for its new Neptune spacecraft. Neptune is expected to start carrying passengers into the stratosphere \u2014 using a massive balloon, instead of rockets \u2014 as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p>The company touts the pressurized Neptune capsule as \u201cthe largest human spacecraft in operation\u201d aside from space stations like the ISS. It also says Neptune is the third commercial suborbital spacecraft to ever be built, after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgin-galactic-rocket-plane-flies-richard-branson-crew-to-space-2021-7\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"20\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgin-galactic-rocket-plane-flies-richard-branson-crew-to-space-2021-7\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"2fb89b82-9182-4fda-9595-848c96668d70\" data-uri=\"c1ef08a7c32de7e6df1c852486af0fcf\">Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo space plane<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bezos-blue-origin-space-tickets-price-cost-how-to-buy-2021-7\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"20\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bezos-blue-origin-space-tickets-price-cost-how-to-buy-2021-7\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"c2c52259-bb73-451d-8eb1-b8ce6b0a7c98\" data-uri=\"22c9c3746d9f0041b203dbbfaba8d065\">Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard crew capsule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest offering in space tourism promises to be a lot less bumpy. Space Perspective, a Florida-based startup, recently unveiled a test capsule for its new Neptune spacecraft. Neptune is expected to start carrying passengers into the stratosphere \u2014 using a massive balloon, instead of rockets \u2014 as early as next year. The company touts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183591","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=183591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}