You May Get to See Space From a Balloon by the Middle of the Decade

You may get to see space in just three or four years using a balloon. And, unlike SpaceShipTwo, you’ll be able to be up there for a couple of hours instead of just a few minutes.

The ticket price will also be less expensive than Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane, but not that much. While a trip in SpaceShipTwo will be a whooping $200,000, in Bloon—the name of this aircraft—you will have to pay a sightly-less-whooping $156,000 seat. The differences don’t end there: SpaceShipTwo will get you up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) while Bloon will only reach 36 kilometers (22 miles). That also means that you will not be able to experience zero gravity, unlike with Virgin Galactic’s wonderplane.

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