Space Perspective secures $7 for space balloon concept

Commercial space travel for the masses is on the horizon! We’ve heard of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Now a company out of Florida called Space Perspective has secured $7 million dollars in seed funding to send up a trial space balloon in 2021! Their space balloon, Neptune, the size of a football field, will take 2 hours to go up 30km up to the edge of space, and come back down for a relatively affordable price of $125,000! Read more here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/space-balloon-company-raises-funds-will-conduct-first-test-flight-next-year/