Chinese Space Park Grants Space Travel Privileges To Get To The Stratosphere

The Chinese space-inspired theme park promises to provide a short space tour in their amusement rides to see as high as the lower stratosphere. But before that the theme park opens, only Russia can get people to space in exchange for $20 million travel rate per person since the Virgin Galactic is just about to have a test flight.

Space enthusiasts may now get a chance to see space much closer in a cheaper option in the next couple of years since China confirmed that their space theme park, Virgin Galactic is now under development. So far, they only disclosed a high-altitude 'deep space' balloon tour that can go as high as the lower stratosphere.

Virgin Galactic is owned and under the development of KaungChi. They plan to lift a pressurized passenger capsule which they called "Traveller" to an altitude of 15 miles above the Earth's surface. People might say that is not space-high just yet, but experts say it is high enough to see the curvature of the Earth like what Engadget reported. To clarify, it is definitely not a space experience but it definitely once in a lifetime that people will get to go that high.

The huge $1.5 billion theme park project is now in the research phase and KaungChi dubbed it as the "Future Valley". They cannot promise any opening date just yet, but those space travellers-wannabes may need to travel to Hangzhou to experience their ride.

Currently, the company prepares to run a manned test flight of Asia's first near-space tourism project as reported by Aerospace & Defence. The plan is to make the test happen in the next two years. KuangChi is among the few agencies who wants to develop private projects that aim to put leisure travel at double the altitude of commercial aircraft.