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 documenting and celebrating the ...

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

What if your next adventure took you to the edge of space in a serene, balloon-powered ascent? HALO Space is making this ...

Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune balloon and capsule are closing in on commercial flight, and it will launch from the ...

Aerospace company aims to offer a transformative 'perspective' for future explorers to get close to the edge of space with their high-altitude balloon and spaceship capsule ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...