Scientists Say This Balloon Could Take Humans to the Edge of Space

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00:00Want to head to space? Soon you could make the trip on a very intense hot air balloon ride.

00:09The company Space Perspective wants to fly passengers to the edge of space

00:13on board their high-performance balloon and pressurized capsule called Spaceship Neptune.

00:18And they just announced plans to launch the first uncrewed test in early 2021 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

00:24The massive football field-sized balloon can carry up to eight explorers inside its pressurized capsule on a six-hour trip.

00:32Space Perspective says over two hours, Neptune will rise to above 99% of Earth's atmosphere to a cruising altitude of 100,000 feet.

00:41Once there, passengers will have up to two hours to drink in the view and, of course, share images and videos on social media.

00:48And it'll take a couple more hours for the huge balloon to descend back to Earth and land over the ocean,

00:53where a ship will pick up the passengers.

00:56The company says they also want to open the first research and education laboratory at the edge of space,

01:01helping shed light on our universe, life on other planets, and Earth's climate and air systems.

01:07The company says it can't專 head into land over 100,000 feet.

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01:12the company says it can be a range of questions along with it.

01:13The company says it can be a range of questions around reality,

01:15so we're doing this rather than the rest of the mission mediation laboratory at the station.

01:16Take two minute samhころ but wrong or you'll come back,

01:18the team says it can only exist in real life after the amazing hour if you're looking at it an alternatespace.

01:21textbooks haven't allowed seven years to see them as a multi-table here as well.

01:21First place everything can be done and thank you can only offer copy,

01:24all these things for the events until you just want to come back to date,

01:26where they can actually do it without cloud or wait for the moisture action elevator without more.