A Michelin-starred chef is set to bring new meaning to culinary “elevation” by serving meals on the edge of space in 2025.
Rasmus Munk, 33, from Denmark, has teamed up with Florida-based space tourism startup Space Perspective to bring fine dining to where no one has gone before: 100,000 feet above sea level.
According to the Associated Press, Munch and six guests will board Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune for an “immersive dining experience” that will be out of this world, both literally and figuratively.
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The menu will be “inspired by the influence of space technology innovation,” and according to the Associated Press, it will be prepared on board Spaceship Neptune and will be catered by Munch himself.
“We want to tell a story through food,” Munk told The Associated Press. “We want to talk about and highlight some of the research that’s been done … over the last 60 years.”
Chef and co-owner Rasmus Munk of The Alchemist restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark, poses inside The Alchemist’s kitchen. Munk has partnered with Space Perspectives to take passengers on an out-of-this-world dining experience in space, with the menu set to include “glow-in-the-dark stars.” (iStock/AP Photo/James Brooks)
Being on board Spaceship Neptune “will have an even stronger impact” on diners, he added.
The menu also includes “glow-in-the-dark stars made from aerogel and jellyfish proteins,” the Associated Press reported.
Munk said this could include “edible space junk retrieved from satellites.”
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Climate change will also be a topic of discussion aboard Spaceship Neptune, Munk said.
“And we want to discuss a few things. [happening] “From deforestation around the world to rising temperatures to debris in the oceans,” he told The Associated Press.
Munch is the chef and co-owner of the restaurant The Alchemist in Denmark.
The six-hour journey aboard Spaceship Neptune will take passengers 19 miles above sea level for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience. (iStock)
The restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars in 2020 and was ranked the fifth best restaurant in the world in 2023, according to the Associated Press.
Space Perspective told The Associated Press that the entire meal and journey will take about six hours.
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The Spaceship Neptune journey takes two hours, rising to 100,000 feet above sea level and staying there for two hours.
According to the website, the descent also takes two hours.
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The Associated Press points out that although SpaceShipNeptune is at a great altitude, it isn’t technically in “space,” defined as the “Kármán Line,” which is located at the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, 62 miles from Earth.
Tickets for the experience cost $495,000, more than triple the regular price of $125,000 for a ride on Spaceship Neptune.
An artist’s rendering of the Spaceship Neptune capsule’s “lounge,” which will have seating for six for on-board Michelin-starred dinners planned for 2025. (Space perspective)
Space Perspective plans to begin commercial flights of Spaceship Neptune in 2025, it says on its website.
According to the site, the capsule can accommodate “eight explorers and a space explorer captain.”
Unlike a rocket, Spaceship Neptune is powered by a gigantic “space balloon” that will measure 18 million cubic feet when fully inflated.
Space Perspective plans to begin commercial flights of SpaceShipNeptune in 2025.
“So if a football stadium can fly, it could also float inside a fully inflated space balloon,” he said.
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The balloon will be inflated with hydrogen, and Space Perspective says the “Space Balloon” will be more than 700 feet tall before launch.
According to the Space Perspectives website, potential passengers don’t need to worry about the “space balloon” bursting.
The hydrogen balloon carrying Spaceship Neptune is expected to reach a height of more than 700 feet before launch. (Space perspective)
“Space balloons are a well-tested technology that has been flown more than 1,000 times by NASA and other governments and are inherently safe.”
It is a zero pressure balloon so it will never burst.
“In the unlikely event that a hole is punctured on the outside of the balloon, the balloon will slowly descend and land safely.”
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Just in case something goes wrong, SpaceShipNeptune is equipped with a “backup descent system between the capsule and the balloon,” Space Perspective said.
It is a parachute system similar to those used to return payloads and other capsules to Earth from space, they said.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Space Perspective for further comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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