Spaceship Neptune to Reach the Stars From the First Marine Spaceport

Many design projects have started with Lego building blocks, but the ship-based launch system for Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune balloon and capsule is a most unique and remarkable example. 

“We kept buying more boxes of them as we reconfigured the mock-up,” says Taber MacCallum, who cofounded Space Perspective with his wife, Jane Poynter, in 2019 and serves as its chief technology officer. 

The complex roller system aboard the Florida outfit’s…