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.

Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune balloon and capsule are closing in on commercial flight, and it will launch from the middle of the high seas. We're the first media on board.

Space Perspective, the latest private company to offer tourist flights to the edge of space, is taking a new approach to space tourism through the use of a high-altitude balloon.

British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is investing in Titusville-based Space Perspective, and he will co-pilot a pressurized capsule and enormous hydrogen balloon on the ...

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 ...

When aloft, it hangs 100 feet below a 550-foot-tall, 300-foot-wide balloon that is inflated with hydrogen. ... Florida company's space balloon takes big step toward 1st human flight. Sep 23, 2024.

The billionaire is investing in Space Perspective, the Space Coast-based space balloon venture, and will join its founders on the space tourism operation’s first human test flight planned next year.

Space Perspective' Spaceship Neptune is a hydrogen-filled space balloon that can be launched from a marine spacesport, carrying an 8-passenger capsule boasting the largest cabin in the industry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson is heading to the edge of the atmosphere -- in a space balloon. A company called Space Perspective says Branson will co-pilot the first crewed flight by ...

Space Perspective Space Perspective is preparing for the first crewed flight of its stratospheric balloon, and Virgin Galactic founder and adventurer Richard Branson will be going along for the ride.