Arizona-based World View Enterprises plans to take travelers to the edge of space with a balloon and thinks it will look something like this.
"Affordable" space travel —
Arizona-based World View Enterprises plans to take travelers to the edge of space with a balloon and thinks it will look something like this.
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The company claims it will be a gentle ride in a luxurious space capsule that fits eight passengers.
Room with a view —
The company claims it will be a gentle ride in a luxurious space capsule that fits eight passengers.
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After a two-hour flight to about 100,000 feet, the ghettoblaster-looking space capsule will descend back to Earth with the help of a parachute.
Ready to land —
After a two-hour flight to about 100,000 feet, the ghettoblaster-looking space capsule will descend back to Earth with the help of a parachute.
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The space capsule is lifted by a high altitude balloon to about 30 kilometers, around three times as high as a passenger reaches on commercial airplane flights.
The air up there —
The space capsule is lifted by a high altitude balloon to about 30 kilometers, around three times as high as a passenger reaches on commercial airplane flights.
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