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Startups building balloons to hoist tourists 100k feet into the stratosphere
A single trip would last about 6 hours and ticket prices range from $50,000 to around $184,000 per seat.
CNBC spoke to three startups — France-based Zephalto, Florida-based Space Perspective and Arizona-based World View — that aim to hoist tourists to the stratosphere using pressurized capsules and massive gas-filled balloons. "The capsule itself is designed to to carry eight customers and two crew into the stratosphere," said Ryan Hartman, CEO of World View. "We don't need any physical requirements to board the balloon," said Vincent Farret d'Astiès, the founder and chief pilot at Zephalto.
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