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(CNET) This company wants to take us to space in a balloon Taber MacCallum's space tourist company Space Perspective wants to be world's first company offering passenger rides to the stratosphere hooked to a balloon.
Spotlight on Space Perspective Founder Taber MacCallum
(AIAA) If I float up into "space" (Karman line 100 km above sea level) in a balloon, will I hit a point of zero gravity? Of course not. That only happens on descent in rockets and even in passenger planes because of falling, dipping so severely that one floats like one would in a dropping elevator.
Seeing the flat horizon curved by the window
Will the earth be spinning? Probably not. Will curvature be seen on the horizon? Only if the windows act like fisheye lenses (convex) creating the illusion like they do on wide angle cameras. It's been a year since this August 24, 2020 promotional video, so what is happening.
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