The Next Frontier Of Space Tourism - Going To The Stratosphere In A Balloon
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Commercial space flight is becoming more and more common with companies including SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic all having flown paying customers into space over the last several years. But soon, those interested in seeing the earth from an unusual vantage point may have another option. A number of startups are hoping to hoist tourists to the stratosphere using pressurized capsules and massive gas-filled balloons. CNBC spoke to three of them, France-based Zephalto, Florida-based Space Perspective and Arizona-based World View.
The experiences would not take passengers all the way into space, the start of which is generally accepted by the U.S. government to be around 80 km or around 50 miles above the earth’s surface. Still, the companies we spoke to said passengers would be able to experience the “overview effect,” a common, highly emotional phenomenon felt by astronauts when they see the earth against the blackness of space. The rides would also be much smoother, avoiding the bone rattling experiences of rocket-powered space tourism.
A single trip would last about 6 hours and ticket prices range from $50,000/seat with World View to around $184,000/seat with Zephalto. All the stratospheric balloon companies we spoke to are still developing and testing their systems. Space Perspective and World View would not give CNBC an exact date for when they plan to begin commercial flights, but Zephalto said the company is aiming for 2025.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:27 The stratospheric experience
07:00 Stratospheric balloons
10:58 Regulation and safety
13:52 Road to commercial flights
Produced, Shot and Edited by: Magdalena Petrova
Additional Camera: Lisa Setyon
Animation: Jason Reginato, Emily Rabbideau
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Footage: NASA, Getty Images
Additional Sources:National Air and Space Museum, Federal Aviation Administration, Newspapers.com
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The Next Frontier Of Space Tourism - Going To The Stratosphere In A Balloon
This is giving reverse oceangate vibes
That is just *exactly* what I was thinking. You beat me to the comment.
*POP* 😂
Yup. The Titan Afloatable. In case of catastrophic decent passenger will have approx. 10 minutes before literally running out of air.
They NEVER learn🤣🤣🤣🤣
u wont feel anything ..direct heaven in milisec ..
OceanGate but Up
yep.
Looks like an interesting blockbuster sequel 😂
They can deploy a parachute if something goes wrong. The technology is much better understood than the composite material used for OceanGate.
VacuumGate
It’s probably easier to build a capsule going up with low pressure than it is going down with immense pressure. Yes or no? Someone let me know.
9:10 "It is an extremely safe gas". I'm speechless!
yes, because that statement is factually incorrect.
Yeah they never saw the Heidenberg video. 😂
@@luchacefox259 Everybody saw that.
@@luchacefox259Hindenburg?
Bro, these companies are setting up some of the most Looney Tunes style disasters for the rich customers like the Titan sub. 🤣🤣🤣
Parachutes have been invented
@@Hans-gb4mv at that altitude, should anything go wrong, the passengers will instantly pass out due to the lack of oxygen or freeze into an icicle due to the extreme low temperature. When Felix Baumgartner, aka the Fearless Felix, jumped from 135000 feet back to the ground, he was in an air-tight fully pressurized suit that's similar to a space suit. He is also a professional skydiver and went through extensive training for that jump. A untrained person on a tourist ballon will die so quickly in this situation and parachute or not isn't gonna save him.
@@Hans-gb4mv Good luck with that in shirt sleeves at 100k feet.
LOL, I have sky dived under 10k and it is cold.
I say it let unfold.
And they poo poo spacex for being overly expensive at 55 million, but deceptively dont say that its for actual orbit and to the ISS, also flash the headline not giving you time to read that its for 3 people! which is incredibly cheap!!!
Bad news for flat earthers
Sure. Bring a group of influencers up to showcase the spheric earth.
The curvature isn't that pronounced at 100k ft. You would really have to be much higher for it to be obvious. They're exaggerating here when they say you can see the curvature. And Flat Earthers might also argue that they are just seeing the "edge of the circle" or something. They're about as bright as Trumpies.
@@johnsmithe4656yeah so why do they argue that you can see curvature on planes, even pilots stick with that story,
I’m not a flat earther or spherical, really doesn’t matter to me, we’re still stuck in earth regardless
@@RX-8GT First, most pilots aren't going up to 100k ft, they are going up to around 30k ft. Same as a passenger airliner. Second, I have talked with pilots and when the subject has come up they say that you need to be in LEO basically to see the curvature clearly. There are actually formulas you can plug numbers into and figure out what your horizon will be and whether you can see curvature from that altitude. It's math. You can do it if you really care. All I know is that the Earth is huge, and you have to get pretty much into Space (not 100k ft) before you can see the whole shebang.
@@johnsmithe4656 SR-71 crews and U-2 pilots have said they could see the curvature of the earth at 80,000 and 70,000 ft respectively. These balloons are supposed to go to 100,000 ft.
Also, I've seen video from amateur balloon flights to similar altitudes and you can definitely see the curvature. Here's an example: czcams.com/video/SdgJMJv_5AM/video.html
I hear China is offering “See America” balloon flights
Hilarious! 😊
Yep
This is gonna be interesting. Let’s wait for the Netflix documentary on what went wrong. 😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Aym? Planes are more dangerous
I think I'ma call this one Stratogate
Bahahahaha ! Thats solid Gold.
That female spokesperson sounds a little sleazy. She states that hydrogen is so safe, even though it's highly flammable. Her stating balloons are perfectly safe is a little Disingenuous.
I also got little bad omen vibes from her vibes - gut feel u know
They are, this isn't hindenburg times😂. Obviously nothing like this is 100% , but its really safe these days
Keep in mind, the Hindenburg was coated with a super flammable skin. Most of the fire you see in the crash was not from the hydrogen, but from the diesel fuel... the burning hydrogen rose up into the air. The hydrogen only burned because it mixed with air (in these balloons, the hydrogen doesn't mix with the outside air). And even in the Hindenburg disaster, two thirds of the people survived.
Oh, and the Hindenburg was not designed to use hydrogen... it was designed to use helium, but the United States refused to sell helium to the nazis so they had to switch to hydrogen. Had it been floated with helium, the disaster would not have happened at all.
She does sound like she wants to hand wave away any dangers, though. All that said, it's still probably a lot safer than strapping yourself to a big tank of liquid methane and oxygen and lighting the candle.
You drive around in a device that propels itself by creating explosions siphoning a tank of a highly flammable accelerant. We call it perfectly safe all the time. This is not much different. Her arguments for not using Helium was the sleazy part.
@dwerg85 That's not really the same thing is it, She is talking about a bag of hydrogen gas. Hydrogen will never be as safe as helium, but with helium, you do lose some of your lifting capability.
At least Space Perspective knows their customers...... "a family sitting around the table.... we already went to antartica, safari, lets go to space".
I was thinking they could also cater to the privacy market. You could get a lot of isolation in one of these balloon capsules.
Michael Scott vibes 15:51
Yes. Rich people 😂
In other words, not normal people.
All tickets are one way only lol
but .... but .... what goes up, must come down, surely ? 😨
😂😂😂
I like how they list all the vacation a family was on and bored of those, and yet most people can't even afford to go on vacation.
I am on my 4th vacation in 6 months.
@@SAMMIEJONESJUNIOR That's why I said most.
Wealthy rich folks love to find a way to live life on the edge.
edge of space?
Gonna take my dog up there so he can pee and mark his territory as king dog.
Laika already beat him by almost 70 years yo
My dog will fight your dog 😂
"We've been to the Antarctic, we've gone on a Safari..."
LMAO, who the hell is she talking about? Gotta be rich people because no remotely normal person has done or ever will do anything like that!!
You don’t need to be rich to go on a safari or Antarctica
@@erwina4738 oh boy, only upper middle class can afford to go to these places. A trip to Antarctica costs $15,000 minimum. A safari would be more affordable with $6000. Any regular middle class cannot afford these holidays especially with the cost of living now.
@@martinebon4333 True mostly upper middle class, BUT middle class too if they have savings, and built up assets such as a stock/crypto/bond portfolio. It just depends on their financial situation. But in regards to OP, normal people are upper middle class too lol
@@martinebon4333I’m what I consider to be fairly normal and plan to be doing a Safari vacation next summer.
but she's right, that's the target audience for space tourism. No normal people is gonna be taking a holiday in space anytime soon
$50,000/ride ...... Nah!.you can keep your balloons.😅
“We’d be using 1/3 of a % of the global helium supply” So 1/300th of the total helium supply. Seems rather substantial for a single company just starting out. What if this becomes more popular. That’s a lot of helium
Does that mean 300 flights and we're done? No more helium?
If only retanking the helium was high priority to them too.
We all jokin with the risk and you go and make an actually important point... What's ya priblem?...
total helium supply. Now use your brain for two seconds, and ask. if they use more helium, and the price goes up, what happens to the total supply of helium
Nah, as long as the material doesn’t seep out of the balloon some how the helium is totally reusable and can be re compressed into a canister again and again.
Hey honey, I have an idea. Let's take that 3/4 of a mil we have stashed in the cookie jar for this year's vacation and take the kids on a space balloon ride for a few hours!!!😂
When you have 100's of millions,, billions, this isn't even paper clip money, loose change in the couch money, a wedding even.
Even tho I feel like this is a Oceangate thing waiting to happen. Your post is like you are some1 who won a million dollars then you go and buy a million dollar car and later to complain about how expensive it is to service it.
This looks like more fun than a 3 minute ride to the edge of space even without the minute of weightlessness.
What could go wrong 😂
We need flat earthers to ride to ride the balloon.
We are already in space. We are on a big rock orbing the sun, in space.
Our planet is in space. But life on earth is not because our atmosphere does not allow space to enter
Technically, we are in space already, just stuck on a single planet. But in common and legal parlance, "space" is anything and anywhere beyond Earth, at a minimum of 100 kilometers up.
Steer the balloon with a MadCatz controller?
Of these companies, the spokesperson for the helium balloon seems the most honest
Soumds like another venture in the footsteps Stockton “The Titanic” Rush.
oceangate = sky gate
This is a great idea and toyally safe, I don't see how this could go wrong at all, this will work perfectly, it's not like the balloon could burst accidentaly sending its passangers to their deaths, or the onboard systems could fail and have the passangers float away into outer space, or the balloon coiuld burst into flames and incinerate everything, it's not like any of that could happen at all, at, all, this will just work.
End sarcasm.
If it doesn't control by an Xbox controller then I'm not riding it!
😂😂😂
It actually uses MadCatz for even more savings!
with bluetooth/wifi connection
Balloon to the stratosphere, then a space hook to low earth orbit, then a starship to a Lagrange point. 😎🤖
I can't wait to join the 15 mile high club
Helium is a limited rare resource and shouldn't be used for pointless trip.
Pressurized chamber and tourism gives me bad vibes.😢
😂😂😂😂 titanium carbon fiber hull😂😂😂
I would give anything to be able to experience the beauty and emptiness of outerspace
So 100,000 ft with balloons is now space travel. 🤣
We used to call it an accident.
You can't go any further than that because there is no space
@@Dan-ms4ln seriously dude, put the pipe down.
100,000 ft has been the standard for being considered Space for decades. Look at the X-15 program and how many of those pilots are considered to be astronauts because of the altitudes they achieved during their test flights.
@@Dan-ms4ln Actually you can. NASA has sent balloons as high as 160,000 feet but that's considered about the upper limit for a balloon. And you can't go higher because there's not enough atmospheric pressure to keep the helium inside the balloon. It would pop.
At first I thought this story was full of hot air, but now I see it as very uplifting.
I wish I had the problem of having visited too many places around the world the only option is space. Its hard to find the time and money to just travel out of state. Some people really have too much time and money.
Exactly! 😂.. bruh I’m still exploring this world. This shows there groups of people living a wayy different thrill life to most people and this is a stretching it.
@@sirlevis7869 Definitely. The wealth gap is huge now.
15:49 totally relatable thought for all the average earners in times of rising living costs.
Right $100k vacation on the low end for a family of 4
Imagine it just keeps getting further and further away from earth, until it pops and just floating in space.
i wanna "like" this, but that is super sad 😮.
Sigh. That's not how science works. The ballon and capsule will never raise high enough to reach orbit or space. Otherwise we wouldn't need rockets to launch satellites or go to the ISS. Think!
Flat earthers will not cope
Bad idea - motion sickness from rocking back and forth.
3:53 "outside the capsule its essentially a vacuum"
Ok, that's exaggerated. They realize that balloons don't work well in vacuum, right? Sounds like some salesmanship here. Not really a vacuum, not really space imo.
These companies are like theranos, what pathetic is news media promotes them without doing any actual journalism.
Pretty obvious she's in marketing, not R&D/Engineering.
'these experiences are highly hyperthetical'
Sounds kinda cool
Income inequality in future:
+ Lower middle class vacations in these balloons
+ Middle middle class vacations in the low earth orbit stations
+ Upper middle class vacations on the moon
+ Rich vacation on Mars
You’re not a spaceship. You’re a balloon.
Aliens must be thinking ''look at those fools, we're here with anti-gravity and they're still using gas to float around, hahaha"
This is amazing, butI'll stay in the troposphere.
Looks like an awesome experience at a relatively low price. If they can deliver on the vision.
You ride it first, bro😂
As long as its rich people going on these rides. Its all good.
If you spend your money in this you’re not rich, being rich and being wealthy are two different things
Wonka's Glass Elevator.
What if someone pops the ballon? What contingencies are there for a Fall?
13:00 well, I hope those parachutes are strong AF.
War will come to space too.
Knowledge supports growth.
I'm curious, what if wind blew the balloon to black hole or another planet
How many flat earthers can you fit inside it? 😭😭 lol 😂
in 6 hours what if winds drag balloon to some other country and they shoot holes in it?
Imploding in Water or Exploding in Space, choose wisely! We are not ready for stuff like these, for Now at least.
I'd put it on my bucket list. Going up into the stratosphere in a huge balloon is much safer than thinking you can go to the bottom of the ocean in a carbon-fiber submersible. The only problem that I see is that helium is surprisingly hard to find on Earth.
does it have a PS4 controller as well?
Yeah and a submarine down to the titanic sounded like a good idea too 😳
I have a name for the capsule..... "Ingenuity"
Flat earthers having sweats
Why not? Other things on my bucket list, but this ... Why not? Ever go up the CN Tower? That elevator ride is awesome. Even flying in a hot air balloon is a unique experience, I've been told.
“We’re using helicopter standards.” How many helicopters can fly at 100,000 feet?
I will ride this one day
I'ma play devil's advocate 😮😂....so what happens when a micro meteor punches thru a plastic balloon
I can't wait!
Can't wait for the CGI videos on CZcams explaining what happens to the human body in a ball once it falls from space to the ground. The OceanGate ones were pretty graphic at times.
I would love this
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kinda surprising the amount of negative comments on this topic. This has to be one of the most exciting news lately, who wouldn't want to experience space? I'm hoping this will caught on and become more affordable, maybe I could be in the stratosphere once before I'm gone
These people would be mad at someone going to the moon in 69
For real, this is so exciting!
Someone gets on with a staticky sweater, aand it's *[boom!]* "Oh, the humanity!"
Wow this bold😂, dam but imagine being in space
its ok you dont fall up,you fall down 🤣
Let's start with all the flat earth believers 😂
“We’ll be flying our full spacecraft in uh just shortly” …that’s a pod and a hot air balloon.
This is a perfect opportunity for flat earthers to try forced skydiving
What if they still see it's flat ?
@@ahmedzakikhan7639 they won't
I see a new Stockton Rush business model for billionaire tourism, and if us plebs are fortunate, with the same outcomes. What do you call giant spaceflight pod with like 2000 billionaires on board that crashes? It's the old lawyer joke punch line, "A good start".
Helium is in short supply. Sad to see our resources wasted.
Hey, would space tourism be the ideal medicine to treat flat earthers?
As if ocean gate wasn’t enough…. I sure hope this has a better ending.
The need private beds for some space loving ❤❤❤ The stratosphere club
darpa probably laughs at all the kids playing with balloons.
Hello !! 👋👋 haha Thank you. 😀😀
Damn these people crazy.
- Wind...
- Wind? Never heard about it...
You provided good coverage of this start-up venture. It was definitely a cheap shot on the part of CNBC to include movies of the Hindenburg burning in an apparent effort to dissuade potential customers from using services of competitors who use hydrogen.
Wondering when we will actually see first space tourist 😊❤
Cool. Sign me up.
There are two tickets: $100 to fly up to the Space, and $49,900 to get you back 🤣
"with bathroom on board"......
no accident in 20 years and it has parachutes ...they say it's much safer than missile rides
One day we all gonna live in stratosphere
I don’t believe it. How can the lie of living on a ball continue if there’s a business that does this?!
Better get that QC department on platinum level status and above and beyond!!!
What if something hits the balloon? Will the people go bye bye
These capsules are really very cool, they're engineered and manufactured by Weyland Industries.
i think everyone should have to do this, we need to see how small we al our anf how from up there there are no borders and we should realize we all share this beautiful rock
Now you just need the FAA to stop messing up all of these flight paterns so one of these ballons doesnt get intercepted during takeoff :D
Actually to cut costs so we can not tax the rich any more than a street sweeper, FAA went to point to point air traffic control, this lets planes go wherever they want all over the sky, creating a safe zone for ballon to go up and land isn't like in the old days when most flights were in corridors. As planes will need to avoid an area 100's of miles across since these are uncontrolled flights subject to stratospheric winds easily over 50 mph, and last all day, 1,000's of commercial jet liners and their 10,000's of customers are going to face longer flight times, which will no doubt be a surprise to virtually all of them. Sorry folks our flight time today will include and extra 20 mins so all of you w family, car service waiting, all of you racing to a meeting, you in 15l with the new heart for that poor kid, hope everyone can handle the wait. Got to keep it in perspective, we can't expect a dozen of our most important top percent to miss blowing an employees entire annual salary on a joy ride to the stratosphere can we.
The Balloons don’t get as high as orbit, but you can see the curvature of the Earth. There are no Gs to push you back in your seat on the way to the Stratosphere, but when you get there, it is as dark as Outerspace.
I wonder when someone will try to launch into space from balloons in the Stratosphere. I wrote a book where a family took a plane to an orbital launch mount held by blimps where a Space Jet took them to The Moon and to Mars…
reverse oceangate vibes...
Great work
How do they plan on landing it? Or retrieving it wherever it comes down?
Same way you land other hot air balloons