Wealthy adventurists, rejoice! For a mere $75,000 per ticket, you
will soon be able to take a balloon ride up nearly 100,000 feet into
Earth’s atmosphere, courtesy of World View Enterprises, whose lofty excursion received approval this week from the Federal Aviation Administration.
World View’s ‘Experience’ voyage promises a “gentle” 90-minute ride to an altitude of approximately 19 miles (30km), where passengers in the “luxuriously appointed space-qualified capsule” will be able to gaze upon “the curvature of the Earth with their own eyes,” according to the company. Passengers will remain at that height for two to six hours before floating back to solid ground, which is said to take between 20 and 40 minutes.
World View’s ‘Experience’ voyage promises a “gentle” 90-minute ride to an altitude of approximately 19 miles (30km), where passengers in the “luxuriously appointed space-qualified capsule” will be able to gaze upon “the curvature of the Earth with their own eyes,” according to the company. Passengers will remain at that height for two to six hours before floating back to solid ground, which is said to take between 20 and 40 minutes.
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