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…
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Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness…
Talk about floating to the top of the world. Space Perspective made the first successful full test of its 700-foot-long space balloon and eight-person capsule on Sunday. The hydrogen-filled balloon…
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This Spanish Space Balloon Will Start Flying From Seville to the Stratosphere Next Year
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One futuristic space balloon could be up, up, and away as soon as next year. EOS-X Space, the first Spanish space exploration company, has just announced that its Spaceship capsules…
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The World’s Most Expensive Meal Will Cost You $495,000—and It Be Will Served in a Space Balloon
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Forget the freeze-dried space meals and Tang. One of the first luxury-space tourism companies is hosting a meal aboard in the stratosphere that is priced at $495,000 each. Now, they…
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Mercedes-Maybach’s Electric Cars Will Now Drive You to This Bonkers Balloon Ride Into Space
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Mercedes-Maybach electric vehicles will deliver space-tourist clients to Space Perspective’s balloon before it heads into the stratosphere. But the companies are also exploring ways to bring “elements of the Maybach…