Space Perspective, the latest private company ... attempted to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon flight back in 1998 before bad weather thwarted their efforts. (Nigel Wright/The ...

Space Perspective designed a giant roller system to unfurl the 650-foot-long balloon. The two-year $31 ... and life-support system includes an air-revitalization process to recirculate cabin ...

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 ...

were designed with balloon motifs. Thanks to the generosity of several generations of donors, the National Air and Space Museum maintains one of the world's great collections of objects and images ...

Space Perspective is preparing for the first ... Branson, who together with pilot and engineer Per Lindstrand made ...

Beginning in the early 1930s the United States Air Force began making forays into the atmosphere using balloons, and what followed laid the foundation for NASA and all American space exploration ...

The rocket, carrying a satellite, will then blast into space to deliver its cargo, while the balloon deflates and ... to power itself up through dense air up to 22 miles, using 85% less fuel ...

Balloons as pictured in the collections from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Cooper Hewitt, National Postal Museum, and National Museum of Asian Art. For more, check out early flight ...

Fan of hot air balloons? Now you could fly into space, well almost, in something similar and as early as 2024. World View Enterprises, an American near-space exploration and technology company ...

Meet the entrepreneurs providing a rarefied clientele with once-in-a-lifetime journey in a stratospheric air balloon.