VIP Tourism, a Turkish tourism firm, will start organizing space tours to the stratosphere by 2014, the company announced yesterday. The company will offer space tourists from Turkey and around the world a four-hour-long experience 36 kilometers above the Earth’s surface aboard a space balloon named “Bloon,” which has reportedly been developed with state-of-the-art technology by Spanish firm zero2infinity. The company has invested 20 million euros in the Bloon project. “Reservations will begin Jan. 1, and we expect 400 people to register before the launch of the service,” VIP Tourism Chief Executive Officer Ceylan Pirinçcioğlu told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday. Read More
