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🌍✨Artemis II astronauts shared breathtaking new photos of Earth during their historic mission. Our fragile blue planet glows against the blackness of space.

These images capture the awe and perspective of seeing Earth from the Moon’s vicinity.

Cherish and protect our only home.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/artemis-moon-astronauts-nasa-8c66ed4f206f92b9d96c818d4dc056b4

@goodnews

#ArtemisII #EarthFromSpace #SpacePerspective #GoodNews

Following the cessation of operations by the Space Perspective company, the mother ship MS VOYAGER is currently on its way to Louisiana, returning to the shipyard where it was adapted to operate with balloons.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9132296

#NearSpace #Balloon #SpacePerspective

Merely a few months after the successful balloon test flight of the Neptune-Excelsior capsule, Space Perspective the Florida-based company aimed to offer touristic rides on balloons to near space faces shutdown amid financial troubles, furloughs, and allegations of mismanagement.

https://talkoftitusville.com/2025/01/17/space-perspective-shuts-down-amid-financial-troubles-furloughs-and-allegations-of-mismanagement/

#Balloon #NearSpace #Stratospheric #Technology #Research #Tourism #Titusville #SpacePerspective

#SpacePerspective macht Fortschritte im #Weltraumtourismus: Unbemannter Testflug des Raumballons auf 30 km Höhe war nun erfolgreich. Luxus-Kapsel für acht Personen landet sicher im Golf von Mexiko. https://winfuture.de/news,145571.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

🎈 30km test flight https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/space-perspective-space-tourism-balloon-test-1235867135/

#SpacePerspective #SpaceshipNeptune #SpaceTourism

Egal nach welcher Definition: Der #Weltraum ist in 30 Kilometer Höhe noch lange nicht erreicht. Trotzdem kann es sich das Unternehmen #SpacePerspective nicht verkneifen, mit dem Weltraum-Traum zu werben: https://winfuture.de/news,141369.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Today, Space Perspective, the Florida-based company created to offer in the future balloon-borne tourist flights to near space unveiled their brand new capsule Excelsior-Neptune.

The craft will be used for uncrewed test balloon flights before the completion of a second capsule that would take their first commercial passengers to the stratosphere in 2025.

(Note: whenever you see Spaceflight replace it with the correct term "near space")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpXDTMmVkCI

#SpacePerspective #Balloon

Test flights on tap for Space Perspective’s luxury high-altitude balloon - Enlarge / Space Perspective's first test capsule, Excelsior, has a diam... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2004772 #spaceperspective #commercialspace #science #balloon #space

Models indicate that #VHABFs *🎈 are very susceptible to changes in #SpaceWeather ☢️, during stronger #GLE events**. This is largely due to their long cruise time at high altitude. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896723000289

*very high altitude balloon flights beyond the #stratosphere via commercial entities such as #WorldView and #SpacePerspective

** Ground Level Event is a solar particle event where charged particles have sufficient energy to be measured at the #Earth's surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_level_enhancement

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Super_Pressure_Balloon_Begins_Globetrotting_Journey_(26978370252).jpg

🎈 The sub-#orbital #SpaceTourism company plans to build multiple marine #spaceports. It’s currently selling tickets for the 2h “edge of #space’ trip for $125,000. #SpacePerspective has sold over 1,000 tickets so far https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/11/24/would-you-pay-125000-to-see-the-northern-lights-from-a-space-balloon

#SpaceTourism

My local tourist agency posted this. I don’t think it is a joke…. #spaceperspective #NovemberFoolsDay #sparenoexpense