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A 'Discount' Option for Space Travel?
World View Enterprises brags about its "affordable" $75,000, 2-hour trip 19 miles above the Earth's surface.
It's a bold tagline for a start-up: "Your view of the world is about to change." But World View Enterprises means that quite literally.
The Tuscon-based company released plans earlier this week to offer passengers a physically-out-of-this-world view of the Earth's curvature, with commercial balloon trips up to an altitude of 19 miles. The trip would include two hours at altitude, following a few hours of ascent in a balloon gondola designed to hold two pilots and six passengers.