{"id":22985,"date":"2013-07-10T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:51:20","slug":"want-to-go-into-space-for-just-25000-try-the-balloon-that-will-fly-twice-as-high-as-concorde-and-take-you-from-paris-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=22985","title":{"rendered":"Want to go into space for just \u00a325,000? Try the balloon that will fly twice as high as Concorde and take you from Paris to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/high-tech-balloon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22980\" alt=\"Space Balloon\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/high-tech-balloon2.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/high-tech-balloon2.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/high-tech-balloon2-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/high-tech-balloon2-500x173.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a>A Spanish company plans on offering the ultimate day trip to near-space in two years time &#8211; just enough time to start saving for the \u00a395,000 ticket.<\/p>\n<p>During the flight, passengers will be able to stand up and enjoy fantastic panoramic views of Earth, experience weightlessness and even eat a meal if they desire.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00ebbloon\u00ed is the brainchild of Spanish entrepreneur Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales, boss of Barcelona-based Zero2Infinity.<\/p>\n<p>Space tourists will journey to earth&#8217;s outer limits in a capsule that can hold six people &#8211; four passenger and two pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Annelie Schoenmaker of Zero2Infinity, said:\u00a0&#8216;The ride will be very gentle and peaceful as well as environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Passengers will be able to see the sun and the stars at the same time, while looking down on the curvature of the earth.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Russian adventurer\u00a0Artemy Lebedev who is one of the few people on the planet to have visited every country, has already signed up for a trip to near-space.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial operations will begin in 2015 but a trip for four people will cost around \u00a395,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Schoenmaker said:\u00a0&#8216;The experience will be very much like that in an aeroplane although there will be a period of about 30 seconds when passengers will experience weightlessness and will be able to float around the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>Zero2Infinity&#8217;s largest pod, which carries six people, has 15 square metres of windows for amazing views of the Earth and space.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently doing test flights and raising more investment for its new venture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish company plans on offering the ultimate day trip to near-space in two years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,146,224,137],"tags":[1714],"class_list":["post-22985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-balloon","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}