Tony Robbins puts money behind Cape Canaveral space balloon business
The company says it will offer “opportunities for groundbreaking research and life-changing travel experiences for off-world travels.”
Self-hep guru Tony Robbins is reportedly putting some of his money behind a Cape Canaveral start-up that wants to send people to space onboard balloons.
The company, Space Perspective, announced Wednesday in a press release that it has secured $7 million “for the development and early flights of Spaceship Neptune to the edge of space.”
A high-performance space balloon with a pressurized capsule. (Space Perspective)
“The infusion of capital advances the human space flight company another step closer to fundamentally changing the way people have access to space for research and tourism,” the statement read.
Space Perspective said it chose investors who are the “cutting edge of venture capital.” Among its investors is Robbins.
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“My life is dedicated to delivering people extraordinary experiences that expand human consciousness,” Robbins said in a press release. “I always say a belief is a poor substitute for an experience and Jane and Taber’s work at Space Perspective will deliver a life-changing experience to people across the world and help us all realize that we are part of a human family sharing this remarkable planet.”
According to the company, the “space balloon” uses a pressurized capsule technology that “gently travels to and from the edge of space over a six-hour period.”
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The company says it will offer “opportunities for groundbreaking research and life-changing travel experiences for off-world travels.”
It’s first flight, Neptune 1, is scheduled around the end of the first quarter 2021 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility.