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Space tourism: balloon with a bar to take tourists to space for $125k

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Re: Space tourism: balloon with a bar to take tourists to space for $125k

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100,000 feet (20 miles) is NOT space. That is merely altitude. Even so-called sub-orbital flights as practised by the Silicon-Valley guys are just high-altitude earth-bound flights.

True space flight entails orbital speed. (And 'altitudes' a lot more than a mere 20 miles.)