The launch of Spaceship Neptune will allow people to enter the stratosphere on a high-tech hot air balloon to “see the curvature” of the Earth, according to ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker.
“These are high pressure balloons, we are talking about things that could be storeys tall, way above the ground and then essentially they could attach, not a large basket so to speak, but a large capsule underneath,” he told Sky News.
Passengers on the capsule would be in a "giant pressurised environment” in a voyage which could cost up to $125,000.
“They want to run it in 2024 so they’re marketing essentially half the height to space but you get to see the curvature, you don’t get to experience microgravity.”
“Half the height to space for half the cost.”
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