Balloon trips to the edge of space by 2021

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A Florida company plans to fly passengers to the edge of space in a pressurized capsule suspended from a balloon, with test flights starting next year.

The six-hour trips will involve a two-hour gentle ascent above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere to 100,000 feet -- an experience, Space Perspective says, only enjoyed so far by 20 people in human history.

The spaceship was designed in collaboration with UK design studio PriestmanGoode, which is also working on a passenger module concept for Elon Musk's"We looked at all the different elements that would make the experience not just memorable, but truly comfortable as well," Nigel Goode, designer and cofounder of PriestmanGoode said in a release.

Space Perspective claims that the process will be simple as boarding an airplane and that the capsule's pressurized capsule offers what it describes as a"shirt-sleeves environment" . Space Perspective's co-founders Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum previously designed the air, food and water systems for the Biosphere 2 space base, in which they lived for two years.

 

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Now this is news worth hearing & hoping for to come to pass, & experience the joy of seeing the earth in all its Glorious Beauty.😁🤗

What could possibly go wrong

I always wondered if it would be viable to deliver chunks of ice to space with a balloon this way, and then boost them the remaining distance so they could be used for water by astronauts.

Nope. No thank you.

WTF, a post with no sh!t talking about TRUMP? Wow!

Amazing the lengths some people in Florida will go to to distance themselves from Trump and DeSantis.

Lovely.

They *really* don't want to be in Florida, apparently...

wondering what will go higher: this balloon or their coronavirus case count.

Ooh they’ll be the first people to have COVID-19 in space!

anything made in USA is trash

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for all the people out of the malfunctioning balloon.

Florida taking lead in establishing universal “herd immunity”.

I'll pass!

God somebody by the trumps tickets and leave them up there!

Oh look! A tourist Covid Balloon fashioned eerily after another flying balloon with a famous ending. Right in my home state, notorious for getting tourists to part with their money and never seeing anything real. Someday, I hope this much effort can go into repairing our planet.

It’s only a little less than 3 times higher than a commercial airplane and twice as high as the Condcorde. Its far closer to ground than even the edge of space (which is 62 miles or 100,000 meters.)

Why?

F yeh...

A Florida company plans to fly passengers to the edge of space in a pressurized capsule suspended from a balloon........ What could possibly go wrong? 🤔

What if you have to take a shit?

I volunteer all Republicans and die-hard Trump supporters go.

What could possibly go wrong?🤦🏽‍♀️

I'll do it

No thanks

What’s the worst that could happen?

and then drop you for a fiery orbital reentry

If this is World View Enterprise it’s Chinese owned. Good luck with that.

If you think I'm traveling to the edge of space with a bunch of Florida yahoos, you're very mistaken.

Take trump and desantis first and drop them off

How?

Hey can we like fix the problems we got going on down here first?

Why was AC360 on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane? Please answer

Take the whole damned state with ya

You mean to the edge of our atmosphere?

I know it will be a lot of money, but I'd love to be among the first to fly in that thing!

Can ducks go?

Oooohhhhh soooooo cool!

Florida...I’ll pass.

Can- Can I go now 👀

Paging Jules Verne... Mr. Verne to the newsroom, stat!

Kids, don't do meth.

Ground Control to Major Tom...

What could go wrong? Hahahahahaha.

First Florida needs to get coronavirus under control.

If Florida is doing it... I'm out. There are issues there.

Why?

HOW MUCH?

I love this idea, but we have more pressing things we need to worry about right now ?

Most Floridians are already in space

Yeah, fine. But whatever you do, don’t get on that treadmill.

Must test positive for coronavirus to apply

How many rioters will it hold?

What could possibly go wrong with that?

Big advancements in space over the last 4 years Space SpaceForce SpaceX

What could possibly go wrong?

Groovy man! Perhaps the DMT trolls appear and sing along. Then we can mingle inside the pools of creation as we try to reconnect with the original ameba. Then we can enhance mathematically the billion of patterns while listening to Black Sabbath. Too cool dude!

trump should go first!

What could go wrong?!

Can they send the whole state?

What would be best: Fly Trump away with this balloon, or Wait for him to be balloning with enough pomposity to lift off.

Dems

Talk about America's birthday, which we celebrate today. CNN is such a useless out-of-touch news network.

Take DeSantis....please

£20 a ticket?

Taking off from Mar a Lago?

I vote Trump be the first passenger

Space onion

Everyone that horny rn like this tweet

How about we solve COVID first? Thanks.

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Can we get someone to colonize Mars? This Earth thing isn't working out.

They should take the flat Earth club up there.

That was a cool idea when they first did it in 1931. Now it's just another scheme to milk the clueless rich of their excess wealth. Is it going to be an Elon Musk ego project or a top dollar attraction at Disney world. The deal breaker is the long walk home after you come down.

Oh, the humanity, 2021 version.

Oh good lord Florida

Oboy see dangerous joke oo🙆, why na

I think it is rather dangerous.

Do I have to wear a mask?

🤔

Fuck. That.

Can we also fly Florida to the edge of space?

I'd be jumping the fook off 👋👋

Florida ain't ready to do any damn thing

Sounds interesting. But that'll only happen when florida takes this pandemic seriously.

See, this is the type of stuff that I wished politicians did (Both Reps and Dems), embrace the future; we ain't going back in time.

FlatEarthOrg OK idiot's line up please one by one we have something to show you

Sent DeSantis

To prove the earth is flat, right ?

lol how about we talk about this next year.

Y’all go first, I’ll watch and see

What could go wrong with sending a balloon to the edge of space?

You lost me at 'Florida'

Oh well if Florida is doing it....

Yeah...no.

Recipe for disaster

What could possibly go wrong....

yea what could go wrong

What could possibly go wrong

it seems all hope to defeat the virus is gone

yeeaaaa

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