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

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

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/space-tourism-huge-balloon-with-a-bar-to-take-tourists-to-space-for-125000-a-ticket-164515907.html

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simonblackvor 4 Jahren

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.)