Ever dreamt of travelling to space? Well, you might get the opportunity to fulfill your futuristic dream in the upcoming few years. Now you can fly into something very similar to space by 2024 with an American technology company in high-altitude stratospheric balloons. It sounds quite interesting to think how can people travel somewhere at such a humongous height like space using a balloon. If this intrigues you too, keep reading for all the deets.
You May Be Able To Travel To Space In Stratospheric Balloons Very Soon
World View Enterprises is an American technology company working on near-space exploration. By the year 2024, they will allow enthusiasts to reach the stratosphere on a high-altitude stratospheric balloon system. As per reports, the commercial rides will take between 6 hours to 12 hours costing $50,000 for each passenger seat. Anyone might think that a ride in balloons can be very risky but the co-CEO at Space Perspective shared facts about this technologically advanced ride. Jane Poynter, the co-CEO, shared that these balloon rides are very gentle unlike travelling on space rockets.
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World View Enterprises Has Massive Plans!
As shared in an interview by the Today Show, World View Enterprises is aiming a lot of things for the passengers with a desire to witness travel to space and witness the unseen things. The American company’s goal is to take the interested ones on a journey at a huge altitude of 100,000 to experience heavenly sights. From there, the passengers will get to watch the curvature of the earth overlooking the space in the background.
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A humongous helium balloon the size of a football stadium will carry the Explorer Capsule which the passengers will travel to witness the unseen. 8 passengers and 2 crew members will seat in 1 flight to reach above. World View Enterprises aims to initiate 3,000 helium balloons in 1 year. These flights are for one-time use only. So they will recycle these for the advantage of the communities settled closer to the take-off site. And to return back to the land, passengers will be guided by a GPS-guided parafoil to land on the earth.
First Published: August 26, 2022 8:07 PM