Space Perspective Has High Expectations

April 14, 2022 – A while back we told you about Space Perspective, a company with the very cool idea of taking people to the edge of space in a high-tech luxury balloon. The ticket price is a fraction of the cost for tourists being launched in a rocket (although still in the six-figure range), but plans are coming together to make this high-flying trip one to remember.

And down here on the ground, Space Perspective will be great for the local economy, with plans to build a 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Titusville next year.  The company says this will also create 240 full-time, high paying jobs by 2026.

Rather than stress the passenger out with the g-forces of an explosive take-off, the balloon will gently rise to 100,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, while keeping the customers in the lap of luxury.

The company recently hired South Florida restaurant and nightlife entrepreneur David Grutman as “experience curator” to make sure this trip is first class all the way. If Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot were still around, you can bet he would be aboard.

Slated for a late 2024 start, the trips will take up to eight passengers on a six-hour journey that reaches the edge of space at 20 miles above Earth.  It’s a leisurely 12-mile-per-hour rise, then a two-hour stop at the apex, so the views should be spectacular.

And with accommodations that include a lounge with reclining seats, a bar, information touchscreens and windows everywhere (including the bathroom), there will be no shortage of up, up and away moments.

Source: Orlando Business Journal