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.

Paying passengers could be flying to the edge of space as soon as next year, but not with the company you might think. Spain's EOS-X Space has announced that it's nearing finalization of a capsule ...

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 ...

The hydrogen balloon from the third season of Bridgerton. Netflix. When you work at the National Air and Space Museum, you can’t help but keep a special eye out for aviation and space topics or ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Space Perspective aims to send paying customers and payloads to the stratosphere in its Spaceship Neptune, a balloon-borne capsule that's scheduled to make its first test flights early next year.

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.

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 ...

National Air and Space Museum Balloon Expert Reacts to the Bridgerton Runaway Balloon Scene Just how accurate is the portrayal of lighter-than-air flight in the third season of Bridgerton?