Spaceship Neptune will start carrying customers to the stratosphere in 2024, if all goes according to plan.
Also included in the capsule's"Space Lounge" will be a telescope, interactive screens and decorations such as floor lamps and plants to"remind us of the interconnected nature of our planet," the company added.
"Our mission is to inspire space explorers to connect more closely with our planet and each other, and the environment in which they travel with us is central to this," Jane Poynter, founder, co-CEO and chief experience Officer of Space Perspective, said in the same statement."Our Space Lounge is a world away from the white, utilitarian environments you find in other spacecraft.
A typical Space Perspectives mission will lift off at dawn and will take about two hours to reach the maximum altitude of 100,000 feet . Spaceship Neptune will glide for two hours at such heights, then take another two hours or so to descend leisurely toward an ocean splashdown, after which it will be retrieved by ship.
Space Perspective hopes to begin commercial flights in 2024, with paying passengers expected to pony up about $125,000 apiece for the opportunity. For comparison, Virgin Galactic currently charges
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