World View to Start Flying Passengers on Stratospheric Balloon Rides in 2024

October 4, 2021

Arizona-based company World View Enterprises announced that it aims to start carrying paying customers on stratospheric balloon rides in 2024.

The company is developing a balloon-based system that will carry people to the stratosphere, with the typical ride lasting six to eight hours and taking passengers to an altitude of at least 100,000 feet. The overall experience will last five days, which will be spent in and around sites of natural beauty and cultural and historical significance. World View's Explorer capsule will reach altitudes greater than 100,000 feet on each operational flight. Each seat on the company's pressurized, eight-passenger Explorer capsule sells for $50,000.

World View already has a customer for its first crewed, commercial flight. The nonprofit Space For Humanity bought all of that debut mission's seats and will fill them with citizen astronauts that it will select and train.

The Explorer capsule will carry eight passengers and two employees, a concierge and an operator/tour guide.

This isn't World View's first foray into space tourism. Nearly a decade ago, the company announced plans for a balloon-capsule system called Voyager, which would ferry folks to the stratosphere for $75,000 per seat. World View said it hoped to get Voyager up and running by 2016, but that didn't happen.

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