Luxury spaceflight company Space Perspective has appointed travel industry veteran Edyta Teper as the company’s head of global sales – trade partnerships. In her new role, Teper will oversee global sales for travel trade partnerships and report to Chief Marketing Officer Sandy Heydt. She will also lead sales efforts and collaborate with the marketing team in new business development.
Teper has 25 years of travel industry experience, an international background, and sales and leadership abilities. She began her career with Jetset Tours, which brought her to Los Angeles from Melbourne (Australia). Subsequently, she held various senior sales and marketing positions at Carnival Cruise Line, Crystal Cruises and Virtuoso. Teper was also part of the Virgin Voyages start-up team serving as director of sales – U.S. and Canada East, and associate vice president of strategic sales, Americas. In these roles, she hired, trained and mentored a new-to-industry sales team and leveraged her longstanding relationships to establish and solidify Consortia and National Account partnerships.
Space Perspective is inviting people to experience a new and visceral perspective: The panoramas and scale of Earth in space. In late 2024, Space Explorers will be gently escorted to the edge of space inside Spaceship Neptune—a pressurized capsule propelled by a high-performance space balloon that doesn’t use rocket fuel and offers 360-degree views of the world through. The six-hour journey, according to the company, is set to redefine space tourism.
Based out of Kennedy Space Center, Space Perspective is led by Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, along with their expert crew who have been responsible for most human space balloon flights in the last 50 years.
Space Perspective’s first flight is set to depart from Florida. The company is also planning additional launch sites around the world. Space Perspective is now taking reservations, with refundable deposits, on its Spaceship Neptune for flights priced at $125,000 per person. Commissionable and net rates are offered.
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