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Raising expectations: an artist’s impression of the balloon and capsule – think Major Tom rather than Phileas Fogg SPACE PERSPECTIVE View from the top This company plans to float its passengers to the edge of our stratosphere using a space-age hot-air balloon Sipping a cocktail aboard a spaceship while admiring the view of Earth might sound like something plucked from science fiction, but from next year it could become reality. Space Perspective is a spaceflight startup co-founded by married US couple Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, who plan to send passengers into the stratosphere in style in Spaceship Neptune, a pressurised, eight-person cabin attached to a 198m-tall, hydrogen-filled balloon. Launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the capsule will travel to an altitude of up to 30km, where passengers will have a couple of hours to gaze down on their home planet through Neptune’s huge windows before descending back to Earth. Space tourism first came into being in 2001, when American entrepreneur Dennis Tito bought a flight to the International Space Station for a reported $20 million (almost £16 million), and subsequently prices have kept such an experience exclusive to the super-rich. But Spaceship Neptune, while only taking you close to the edge of space, promises to be far cheaper. “Our prices will start off at $125,000 [£98,000], but should come down pretty quickly,” says MacCallum. <strong>The</strong> Space Perspective experience also feels more attainable in other ways. This is not an intense lesson in space travel – the capsule has a fully stocked bar on board, as well as “the toilet with the best view in the known universe,” says MacCallum. “[On Neptune] you can have a glass of champagne with your best friend and look out at the curvature of Earth. I think that will be a very moving experience. We also have Wi-Fi, so it will be the ultimate social media post.” Poynter and MacCallum have worked in space development for decades, and were part of the original crew that spent two years in the early ’90s sealed inside the closed ecological research facility Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert, to better understand the challenges of intergalactic colonisation. “<strong>The</strong> more people who think about the world in the context of space and the solar system, the more we’ll see support for the space programme and science in general,” says MacCallum. “Organisations like Space For Humanity [a nonprofit aimed at democratising interstellar travel] are coming to us to send teachers, poets and artists, because they want to break down that barrier. Having those experiences and conversations is important because it makes you think about our Earth and how we’re all in it together.” thespaceperspective.com SPACE PERSPECTIVE LOU BOYD 16 THE RED BULLETIN
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