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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - MARCH 15: The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is launched with Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Friday March 15, 2019, Kazakh time (March 14 Eastern time) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will spend six-and-a-half months living and working aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

With weddings and group events coming back after pandemic quarantines, many people are looking for something unique. Well, a Florida-based Space Perspective has what they’re looking for. The company plans to start passenger service into space in 2024. Not on a rocket btw. They’ll use football-field-sized space balloons to carry a passenger capsule 100k feet, or 19 miles, above the Earth.

The first flights are scheduled for 2024, and the company says it’s already had customers that have bought an entire flight for events and weddings. Each flight will take up to eight guests into the stratosphere for a six-hour trip.  The capsule is equipped with a bathroom, bar, and onboard Wi-Fi, but if you’re looking for a wedding on a budget this might not be for you; tickets are priced at $125k.

Source: Daily Mail