Florida: The world’s largest capsule for space travel will soon be opened to the public. The ticket price for the luxury travel of this eight-passenger capsule has been set at $125,000.
Florida-based Space Perspectives has unveiled the final version of its spaceship, the Neptune Excelsior. The spaceship has a bar, comfortable seats and a regular lounge.
(Photo: Space Perspective)
Unlike other space tourism companies that use rockets, this Goalpod is attached to a large balloon that will fly 32 kilometers above the Earth’s surface and remain at the boundary of the atmosphere for two hours.
In terms of volume, the capsule is twice the size of Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two and Blue Origin’s New Shepard, and four times the size of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.
After the company completes the spaceship and the large balloon attached to it, plans are underway for its test flights. The first human trial will be conducted later this year.
A statement issued by the company said that the first-ever space flight with such large windows and the extremely spacious round design will offer passengers a panoramic view of the world. .
Neptune has a diameter of 16 feet providing a pressurized volume of over 2000 cubic feet.
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