NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to ... where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine missions to near space. Launch operations will begin mid-December from the agency's ...

Space Perspective's 'Spaceship Neptune' balloon flew to the edge of space on its first unmanned test flight. It lifted off from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Space Perspective | edited by ...

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.

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Video: First look inside world's largest capsule that will take space tourists 20miles above ... per head The capsules carried by giant space balloons will take up to eight guests into the ...

Leroy Chiao, who was a NASA commander on the International Space Station, had a near-collision with UFOs in August.