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For many,

the planet Earth

falls too short, so there is no other choice but to launch into space to conquer new tourist experiences.

Spending a vacation in a hotel in the stratosphere, on the NASA space station, or taking

a trip to the Moon

is no longer a pipe dream.

Not surprisingly, next year it is expected that the Japanese art collector, businessman and above all millionaire

Yusaku Maezawa

is already thinking about the first civilian lunar trip together with eight other people, scheduled for 2023.

But of course, the space cannot be discovered in any way, but much better if it is done from a

luxury VIP room with very comfortable sofas

, several bar counters with premium drinks, gastronomic delicatessen of all kinds and

1.5 meter high windows. High up

to see everything that happens out there (even in the bathrooms).

To do this, there is no shortage of spectacular state-of-the-art telescopes.

The bar counters cannot be missing in the 'lounge'.

All this is served on a platter by

Space Perspective,

an American company specializing in space tourism.

Its founders, Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, have been working on the project for 10 years, when they began to develop space balloons for tourism purposes.

Because one piece of information is missing:

the sybaritic VIP room

is located inside a balloon-shaped capsule (not a rocket), whose mission is to reach the edge of the stratosphere.

A six hour drive

Of course, it is not just any balloon, but it

measures the length of a football stadium

, so the pressurized capsule could not be more spacious.

The future spaceship will be available in 2024

and has its own name: Neptune.

Supported by balloons, its task is to transport people (eight, initially plus the pilot) into space on a trip that will last about six hours.

Space Perspective luxury capsules.

The price of the experience is 125,000 dollars

(about 115,000 euros) per person.

The cost does not seem to be a problem judging by the success of the presale, which already exceeds 600 reservations.

The adventure begins at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where

the six-hour journey

begins (two are ascent and two are descent) aboard this curious means of transport.

After that time interval, you will return to

the earth's surface

, but not before enjoying all the benefits of the aforementioned VIP room, which also

includes a Wi-Fi network

to be able to broadcast the experience live.

The ship transports the traveler to space.

The height reached during the

space journey

is 30 kilometers high, so there is no

weightlessness

, as the ideologues of the proposal say on their own website.

Moreover, it does not reach the distances of other space tourism companies such as Virgin Galactic, which reaches 80 kilometers, but it will be

"above 99% of the atmosphere"

.

And even at a distance three times greater than that of a normal commercial aircraft.

Just have to wait a year...

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