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Inside a NASA complex on Cape Canaveral in Florida, the mission to make luxury space travel available to the public is well on its way. ‘The public’ being those in the highest tax bracket, of course.
Ever since Jeff Bezos yeeted himself into the stratosphere a couple of years back, we all knew luxury space tourism was inevitable – but how many of us could’ve predicted it would be possible by the year 2025?
Space Perspective, a company founded in 2019 to make private space travel a reality, has announced a new project that allows individuals to soar 100,000 feet (about 30 kilometres) above Earth inside a capsule suspended by a hot air balloon.
While astronaut food is typically freeze-dried and vacuum sealed, the meal served on Space Perspective’s hot air balloon will be of a different calibre. It will be cooked by two-time Michelin star chef Rasmus Munk, who owns the renowned Alchemist restaurant in Copenhagen.
The chef’s interest in catering an out-of-this-world meal allegedly comes from his personal affinity with space, sparked by childhood visits to a local planetarium in Denmark. Although Munk’s restaurant is located on our home planet, it does have a special dining area fitted with a planetarium-style dome.
Interestingly, opting to eat in outer space is what makes this ride so expensive in the first place.
