Re:For Sale: Balloon Rides to Near-Space for $75,000 a Seat
by hedgie13 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @09:47AM
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I think I'd prefer MiG-29 ride: http://www.skyandspacetravel.com/included_sky.html
Not as high, but much cheaper, sky is already pretty black and you get a chance to control the damn thing.
Re:For Sale: Balloon Rides to Near-Space for $75,000 a Seat
by VladRussian2 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @01:05PM
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previously they were flying mig-25 & 31 and these planes can go higher, especially mig-25, yet they are older and seems to be more harder(expensive) to maintain.
Long story short, 75K x 6 makes 450k a pop, say it goes up monthly in its inception, that makes ~ $5.5M. Felix Baumgartners jump reportedly cost around $20-30M. Granted it was higher, and the design needed a space suit and a capsule along with the a massive team. Regardless, this will require a capsule and a solid team, not to mention a more complex capsule design that can soar down and land in 1 piece.
I don't want to poop on the cake but 1 accident also everyone gets to watch Jimi Hendrix play in the garden of eden till eternity, which also spells the end of the company and idea. So 2015 extremely ambitious, Highly doubtful unless they have some some nutty billionaire willing to throw in 50M to see what happens.