Space Perspective has just completed the first test flight of its unmanned Neptune One test balloon, which flew on June 18, reaching heights over 100,000 ft and splashing down in the Gulf of ...

Learn what to expect on your ride to the edge of space aboard Space Perspective's Spaceship Neptune capsule. CEO Jane Poynter explains what the high-altitude balloon ride is like. Credit: Space.com | ...

The ultimate balloon ride…to SPACE! Space tourism firm gives a sneak peek at its futuristic pod that will carry passengers 20 miles above Earth next year (although a ticket will cost you $125,000!) ...

Spaceship Neptune will hang beneath a hydrogen balloon the size of a football field, which will carry the capsule up to an altitude of 100,000 feet.

For Just $125,000, You Too Can Take a Balloon Ride to Space Liftoffs won't begin until 2024, ... “This test flight of Neptune One kicks off our extensive test flight campaign, ...

Instead, it will use a balloon to carry its roomy pressurized “Spaceship Neptune” capsule up to 100,000 feet before gently coming back down to Earth and splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.

Spaceship Neptune is a high-performance balloon and capsule combo. The former is an envelope of hydrogen roughly 650 feet tall, which over the course of two hours will lift the pressurized capsule ...

Space Perspective is building a balloon that will shuttle tourists to the "edge of space." Tickets for the luxury six-hour round trip journey start at $125,000. The Spaceship Neptune will bring ...

Space Perspective aims to send paying customers and payloads to the stratosphere in its Spaceship Neptune, a balloon-borne capsule that's scheduled to make its first test flights early next year.

The Spaceship Neptune features a balloon the size of a football field and room for eight passengers beneath it, plus a pilot. The six-hour flight takes passengers to altitudes as high as 100,000 feet.

A massive state-of-the-art hydrogen-filled balloon will then carry the passengers on a two-hour ascent to around 20 miles above Earth — about three times higher than a long-haul flight.

Spaceship Neptune has moved from the drawing board into real life on a factory floor in Titusville. WESH 2 was given an exclusive look at a pressure vessel being constructed that will serve as the ...