Space Perspective recently reached a significant milestone by testing its prototype, Spaceship Neptune, which is based on an innovative concept: a space balloon. This stratospheric hydrogen-filled ...

During the launch, the massive space balloon filled with hydrogen, which lifted the Spaceship Neptune capsule into the sky at a gentle speed of roughly 12 miles per hour.

Spaceship Neptune hanging from a hydrogen balloon. (Space Perspective) MORE: ELON MUSK WANTS TO SELL YOU INTERNET ACCESS FROM SPACE. How the Spaceship Neptune offers a gentle 12 mph ascent to space.

Space Perspective, the Titusville-based company building hydrogen-balloon-powered capsules to lift tourists to the brink of space, just completed an uncrewed flight test from the deck of a ...

Although the giant hydrogen-filled SpaceBalloon and its eight-passenger Spaceship Neptune pressurized capsule wouldn't be in outer space at that height, they would be above 99% of the atmosphere.

The members-only vacation club Exclusive Resorts will become the first privately chartered travel group to fly aboard Space Perspective's balloon-borne capsule. ... (200 m) hydrogen-filled balloon.

Packed with sensors and instrumentation, the capsule and 550-foot-tall hydrogen-filled balloon ascended from the deck of company ship MS Voyager in the Gulf of Mexico miles off the St. Petersburg ...

In issue 5 of CURIOUS we mentioned HALO Space, an ambitious company with big plans to send people into space in a balloon. Well, more of a capsule suspended by a balloon. The curious contraption ...

The balloon is designed to use hydrogen power to reach the edge of space. Read: Space tourism company prepares to take passengers on a 6-hour journey 100,000 feet above the earth ...

But this wasn’t the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s. ... The U.S. Army Air Corps teamed up with the National Geographic Society to build and launch Explorer I, a hydrogen-powered balloon.

Blue Origin launched six astrotourists to the edge of space and back Sunday, a 10-minute ride marking the Jeff Bezos-owned ...

At the heart of this project is hydrogen, a renewable gas, playing a key role. Unlike helium, often used for balloons, hydrogen helps reduce production costs. This choice reflects a desire to make ...