{"id":1698,"date":"2020-12-03T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2022-06-24T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:05:12","slug":"space-perspective-secures-7-for-space-balloon-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/space-perspective-secures-7-for-space-balloon-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Perspective secures $7 for space balloon concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Commercial space travel for the masses is on the horizon! We&#8217;ve heard of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Now a company out of Florida called Space Perspective has secured $7 million dollars in seed funding to send up a trial space balloon in 2021! Their space balloon, Neptune, the size of a football field, will take 2 hours to go up 30km up to the edge of space, and come back down for a relatively affordable price of $125,000! Read more here: https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/12\/space-balloon-company-raises-funds-will-conduct-first-test-flight-next-year\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial space travel for the masses is on the horizon! We&#8217;ve heard of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Now a company out of Florida called Space Perspective has secured&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-space","category-transporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gladlynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}