MICHELIN-STAR dining is coming to the “edge of space” as soon as next year, according to ambitious French startup Zephalto.
While the views and the food will be stunning – the experience will set you back a pretty penny.
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Space tourism is an industry that has been blossoming, slowly but steadily, for several years now.
Companies around the world are sharpening their elbows for a slice of the market, whose target audience is the Earth’s ultra-wealthy.
Zephalto, founded in 2016, is part of a large cohort of businesses gunning for the industry by offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience: Eating a Michelin-star-level meal in space.
The company is currently selling “pre-reservation tickets” for upcoming trips in a pressurised capsule, dubbed Celeste, which is attached to a stratospheric balloon.
Inside the capsule, diner will ascend to an altitude of 25kilometers (15.5 miles) into the sky.
These capsules won’t actually hit suborbital space.
But they go significantly higher than your average commercial airplane.
This allows guests to observe the curvature of the Earth and twinkling stars as they dine in the height of luxury.
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Seats on board the first flights from late 2024 to mid-2025 have already been scooped up, according to CNN.
But the space tourism venture is now selling pre-reservation slots for mid-2025 onwards.
Pre-reservation tickets are going for an eyewatering 10,000 euros a head.
To book out the entire capsule, a trip will cost a lofty 120,000 euros.
Celeste is set to ferry six passengers and two pilots to maximum altitude in just 90 minutes, at a speed of four meters per second.
The capsule will then float above Earth for three hours, leaving Earth’s high-flyers time to enjoy a multiple-course meal.
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