Do you love adventures? If yes, then how does visiting Space sound to you for an adventurous trip? Sound’s quite fun, right? Well, you can now reserve a spot on a space flight that’ll take off in 2024. Yep, you read that right, you can now visit space in 3-years and here’s everything you must know about it.
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You Can Now Take A 6-hour Flight To Space In 2024
Space Perspective, a Florida-based, company is offering tickets on a balloon ride to the stratosphere. The six-hour journey will begin in 2024, where you’ll be leaving planet Earth to experience something new. And the tickets for one seat on the flights will cost you more than $125,000. And if you are Richie rich and don’t mind spending so much, then you can reserve your spot by paying $1,000 as a deposit.
The tickets were launched by Space Perspective after completing a test flight aboard a ship dubbed Neptune One on June 18. And now, the company is promising travellers the most breathtaking six hours of their lives with this flight.
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Each Capsule Will Be Lifted By A Giant Balloon, And Will Accommodate Nine People
For the experience, it will take place in a pressurised capsule launched by a space balloon which offers a slow, gentle journey into the atmosphere. The capsule will be lifted by a giant balloon- meaning travellers don’t need to worry about high G-forces typically associated with rocket launches into space. Instead, they will fly from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
Each capsule will have nine reclining seats, eight for passengers and one for the pilot. It will have panoramic windows, which will offer encapsulating views to everyone on board. And imagine the photographs you will be able to take. Sound’s quite like a dream, doesn’t it?
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You Can Pay $1,000 To Reserve Your Spot
In terms of food and beverage, they will be served throughout the flight. The flight will also have a bar, a cabinet to store personal belongings and an onboard bathroom. For those keen on sharing their journey with people down below, there is a Wi-Fi connection that will support live streaming.
After travelling back down to Earth, guaranteed smooth landings on the water come courtesy of a splashdown cone located on the capsule’s base. All this sound’s so cool, are you planning to book your spot?