It’s not space. It’s more like a high-altitude vacation. A new Arizona company is joining the outer edges of the tourism industry to find passengers who want to see a dark sky and the curvature of the Earth, all without boarding a sub-orbital rocket and paying the insane entry price.
World View has not yet begun flight testing of its system, but is hoping for passenger flights as early as 2016. Zero2infinity recently tested a scale version of its system, including lifting the inflatable “pod” it is planning for passengers to more than 88,000 feet.
