Space Travel Company Inches Closer to Creating 'Astronaut Experience' for Tourists to View Earth From the Edge of Space

The MS Voyager will be the first in a fleet of oceanic launch platforms for the company’s Spaceship Neptune balloon system, which are meant to travel to the stratosphere, the Florida-based companySpace Perspective acquired MS Voyager from shipbuilder Edison Chouest Offshore, and the vessel is currently being converted to a launch platform at a Louisiana shipyard. The marine spaceport should be ready by the end of the year.

The company is nearly done building Spaceship Neptune, which is essentially a capsule that will be carried off to the stratosphere by a giant SpaceBalloon. The balloon is propelled by hydrogen, and rises up at a slow speed of 12 miles per hour . Space Perspective has already lured enough tourists to buy into its space voyages, selling more than 1,000 tickets at a price of $125,000 each,

. The entire flight lasts about six hours, afterwards the capsule splashes down in the ocean at the end of its trip.Technically a tablet, but it can actually be used as a laptop as well, and this model has a 256GB SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM for high processing speed, a clean high-res 12.3" touch screen, and includes Windows 10 Pro.

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