Lifestyle Travelling to space by balloon

[NotBanjaxo]

There's a company planning to send tourists up to space in a pod slung below a balloon.

If the balloon floats close enough to the edge, do you think that people will be able to peer over and see the flippers of the World Turtle?

Space Perspective to send people into stratosphere on a giant balloon from 2024

A SPACE startup company is planning to launch tourists way up into Earth’s atmosphere in a giant balloon. This trip to the stratosphere would give lucky guests spectacular views of the planet…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Rambo John J]

Nice

I bet that fucker is flatter than an apple bottom

 

[member 3289]

I don't know which group is worse, flat earthers or moonlanders

 

[NotBanjaxo]

I don't know which group is worse, flat earthers or moonlanders

It has to be flat earthers, as they don't believe in space travel anyway, so they are moonlanders by default also.

 

[SongExotic2]

I don't know which group is worse, flat earthers or moonlanders

I believe the moon is flat

 

[Jesus X]

I'm guessing some eastern european country will have to do this or maybe some ridiculous company in dubai maybe the chinese. looks way too dangerous for a u.s based company to allow it.

 

[Jesus X]

There's a company planning to send tourists up to space in a pod slung below a balloon.

If the balloon floats close enough to the edge, do you think that people will be able to peer over and see the flippers of the World Turtle?

Space Perspective to send people into stratosphere on a giant balloon from 2024

A SPACE startup company is planning to launch tourists way up into Earth’s atmosphere in a giant balloon. This trip to the stratosphere would give lucky guests spectacular views of the planet…

www.thesun.co.uk

lol retarded writer said it will go up 10,000 ft. a sky diving plane flying higher than that.

 

[NotBanjaxo]

lol retarded writer said it will go up 10,000 ft. a sky diving plane flying higher than that.

Haha, it's a typo, other sites say 100,000 feet.

It's technically the "edge of space" rather than actually space as well.

 

[NotBanjaxo]

I'm guessing some eastern european country will have to do this or maybe some ridiculous company in dubai maybe the chinese. looks way too dangerous for a u.s based company to allow it.

From the article: "The aim by the end of the decade is to have 500 of these missions taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, each year."

 

[Jesus X]

From the article: "The aim by the end of the decade is to have 500 of these missions taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, each year."

if it is any state crazy enough to sanction this explosion certified death trap it will be florida