Citizen travelers will soon be able follow in the footsteps of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos as they book a seat on Spaceship Neptune – a commercial spaceflight now taking reservations. Those iconic 360-degree views of planet Earth are guaranteed from the spaceship’s altitudes of 20 miles above the planet.
The spaceflight luxury trip product is prepping to be ready for take off in 2024. Up to eight guests will be able enjoy a comfortable capsule, complete with a bar and a bathroom, for just … $125,000 each. That’s leagues less than bids for seats on Virgin Galactic flights. Virgin Galactic has been selling tickets for several years for a 90-minute ride that he hopes to launch as full-revenue commercial flights next year. Some 600 reservations have been made so far for prices as high as $250,000.
The Neptune Space Explorers flight will ascend in Spaceship Neptune from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center with eight passengers and a pilot. It will soar above 99 percent of Earth’s atmosphere and then glide for two hours for views of the planet’s biosphere from vast viewing windows.
Spaceship Neptune essentially rewrites the engineering playbook for space tourism: it doesn’t use rocket propulsion nor engender g-force acceleration. Each flight will be customized for each round of guests.
Space Perspective, branding the experience, is the first space launch operator to fly from Space Coast Air and Spaceport, located adjacent to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Their Neptune One inaugural Test Flight has kicked off an extensive testing program that makes Spaceship Neptune a safe way to go to space by applying space balloon flight technology used for decades by NASA and global government entities.
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