An out-of-this-world balloon has taken off from Florida. Space Perspective, a spaceflight tourism company, completed the second unmanned test flight of their Spaceship Neptune aircraft on Sunday ...

Read: Space Perspective prepares for tourist balloon rides to edge of space “We’re delighted by Richard’s decision to join Jane and I as co-pilot on the first crewed flight, leveraging his ...

SAPPORO--A local startup is launching a “space tourism” business to take sightseers on balloon rides 25 kilometers into the stratosphere to marvel at views of the curvature of the Earth.

The balloon launched and landed from the ... that more than 1,800 people had made deposits for rides that cost $125,000 per seat. Space Perspective eviction, next move: Here's what we know ...

Space Perspective, introduced during a recent video news conference, aims to carry a capsule of eight passengers at a time, dangling from a 200m-tall balloon 30km above Earth. The balloon and ...

Looking for a reason to put up a balloon and payload into near-space? Not that one’s necessary, but the Global Space Balloon Challenge has got a variety of good reasons for you to do so ...

We’ve reported on “space” balloons before. Heck, some of us have even launched a few. Usually they go way up in the air, take some cool pictures, and land within driving (and retrieving ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...