Space Perspective wants its riders to fly nature.
The Florida company is working to send paid crews (and research crews) into the stratosphere aboard its “Spaceship Neptune,” a pressurized capsule that will fly high over the Earth under a huge balloon. .
Space Perspective has just released the sculptural images inside Spaceship Neptune, which features 360-degree panoramic glass windows and a living room with views. The announcement on Tuesday (April 12) coincided with the anniversary of the first human flight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
According to the photo, the Spaceship Neptune building can be seen in two settings. Some are in reclining seats, for example, while others with mats can host a “dinner for two or a special event,” Space Perspective delegates said in a statement Tuesday.
Space Perspective provides food and beverage services, and the capsule features lights that can be delayed to see stars or the curvature of the Earth outside.
Select: The first wide viewers in the pictures
Also included in the capsule’s “Space Lounge” is a telescope, interactive screens and decorative objects such as floor lamps and plants that “remind us of how intimate our world is, “the company added.
“Our mission is to inspire aerospace viewers to connect with our world and each other, and the environment where they travel with us is central to this,” said Jane Poynter, the founder, co-CEO and chief information officer of Space Perspective, quoted in the same statement. “Our Space Lounge is a world apart from the white spaces, a utility you find on other planes.”
A typical Space Perspectives mission will be launched in the early morning and in about two hours to reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30 kilometers). Steamer Neptune will fly for two hours at these altitudes, then take two hours or more to slowly descend the ocean currents, and then be picked up by the ship.
Space Perspective expects to start commercial aircraft in 2024, with passenger pay expected to rise to about $ 125,000 each for the time being. For comparison, Virgin Galactic pays $ 450,000 per seat on its suborbital planes. Jeff Bezos ’Blue Origin, the provider of suborbital vehicles, did not release standard pricing details.
Currently, there are about 600 people on Space Perspective’s waiting list; each was returned with $ 1,000. The company has raised millions of dollars in revenue and will make an uncrewed nuclear test flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2021.
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