Space tourism: balloon with a bar to take tourists to space for $125k

Space tourism: balloon with a bar to take tourists to space for $125k(finance.yahoo.com)

2 points by xps 4 years ago | 1 comment

simonblack 4 years ago |

100,000 feet (20 miles) is NOT space. That is merely altitude. Even so-called sub-orbital flights as practised by the Silicon-Valley guys are just high-altitude earth-bound flights.

True space flight entails orbital speed. (And 'altitudes' a lot more than a mere 20 miles.)

simonblack 4 years ago |

100,000 feet (20 miles) is NOT space. That is merely altitude. Even so-called sub-orbital flights as practised by the Silicon-Valley guys are just high-altitude earth-bound flights.

True space flight entails orbital speed. (And 'altitudes' a lot more than a mere 20 miles.)