Space tourism on the cheap?

Paul Heymont 6/30/217:00 AM

With seats on spacecraft operated by companies owned by Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson on offer for millions to would-be astronauts, it looks like your vacation in space will have to wait a while.

Unless you've got $125,000 to spare for six hours in space in a luxury capsule with bar and bathroom, suspended from a huge space balloon (or as the company, Space Perspective, likes to say 'spaceballoon') for "the world's first luxury spaceflight experience).

The company says its Spaceship Neptune will start operations in 2024; it will rise twenty miles above the earth. The pressurized craft with seats for eight plus a pilot won't require space suits or training. The company suggests it might be popular as a wedding venue. For rich couples.

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