7 Nov, 2016 @ 10:09
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Spanish tech firm to send tourists into space within two years

International space station

International Space StationA SPANISH tech firm has announced plans to send tourists to space within the next two years.

Zero2Infinity has said it will use the same technology used in helium weather balloons to float its clients to the edge of space.

The trip will set you back €110,000, but CEO Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales thinks there is a big market for space tourism.

“We are solving the problem with space access in a totally different way. We’re getting outside of the atmosphere using cheap, clean, high-altitude balloons — a technology that is well-understood and mature,” he said.

“Some people want to provide connectivity so we will launch their satellites.

“Some people want to get married up there, so we will send them on a ride and the captain of the ship will marry them.”

The Barcelona-based company, founded seven years ago, has already performed more than 30 test flights.

Lopez-Urdiales has said he will most likely launch the flights from Dubai, where there will probably be more people willing to splash a small fortune for the flight.

The journey will take passengers 40km into the air inside futuristic pods, offering unparalleled views of the curvature of the Earth.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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2 Comments

  1. Hahaha 2 years!! In a country where even the simplest of procedures tends to move forward on the glacial scale, I think the timescale here is hilarious lol.

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