Cyberloop shows us the recent developments in the race to put space tourists in the thermosphere and beyond. To beat the competition, companies promote their latest innovations, like promoting new rides in amusement parks. Participants are lured in with ticket sales and auctions that go in the millions. When we once watched professional astronauts on our black and white TVs, now we see ordinary people leave our planet’s surface towards the Kármán line, the border of the earth’s atmosphere and outer space. These people risk their lives by putting all their trust in technology, scientists, and engineers.
It is impossible to imagine the sense of isolation when it all goes wrong one day, and we lose people out there in the vastness of outer space. We know deep down this is inevitable, but we also know we are humans, and we will never be stopped by anything, on the contrary. Some of us will pay millions to put themselves in great danger, to see space with their own eyes, floating 70 miles above earth’s surface, and be able to tell people below what they were able to do. But one day, some of them will be speaking those words, as a farewell to their loved ones, far down below. 1440 x 1440 px
