Updated: 6:40 PM CDT Jun 23, 2021 Dan Billow Reporter The price of a trip to space is dropping, and you can buy a ticket today for $125,000.A new company offering high-altitude balloon flights has just made a successful test flight from the Space Coast. The sky is black. The horizon is curved. And you’ve got a 450-mile view in Spaceship Neptune, a space ship carried by a balloon. There are no rockets involved. No high G’s, any of that. This is smooth and gentle, said Jane Poynter, Space Perspective Chief Executive Officer.The balloon that’ll carry Neptune One made what its owners say is a successful test flight from the Cape last week. It flew across Florida, and for over six hours, offered space-like views from about 20 miles high, before splashing down in the Gulf. The generally accepted altitude of the edge of space is 60 miles. A balloon would actually be useless up that high. But Space Perspective, the company behind all this, say
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