Space Perspective
American private high-altitude balloons tourism company
Space Perspective is a private American aerospace manufacturer and subsidiary which is building crewed high-altitude balloons for near space tourism. The company, headquartered in Titusville, Florida, is developing Spaceship Neptune, a pressurized gondola lofted by a SpaceBalloon, a large hydrogen high-altitude balloon.
The company was in financial turmoil from January 2025, resulting in the organization being acquired in July 2025 by competitor Eos X Space, a balloon flight company based in Spain.
History
Space Perspective was founded by married couple Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum in 2018. Poynter and MacCallum who had met on the first Biosphere 2 mission and had previously founded the Paragon Space Development Corporation and World View Enterprises, a company which similarly to Space Perspective planned to take tourists to the stratosphere in high altitude balloons. Nevertheless, as World Views Enterprises' focus shifted from tourism to building uncrewed stratostats, Poynter and MacCallum spun off Space Perspective as a separate company.
In 2021, the company flew an uncrewed test flight of their high altitude balloon, including a mass simulator of their pressurized gondola, Spaceship Neptune, and announced initial ticket prices of US$125,000. In October 2021, the company announced it had raised 40 million dollars in its Series A round of financing. In 2023, the company announced it had booked 1,600 tickets, and began construction on its first Spaceship Neptune gondola.
After finishing construction of the first Spaceship Neptune gondola in February 2024, the company flew the gondola for the first time in September 2024 on an uncrewed test flight, launching and recovering the gondola on the company's leased platform supply vessel MS Voyager.
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