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 ...

"From developing small robots that could swim through the oceans of other worlds to growing space habitats from fungi, this program continues to change the possible." ...

The first crewed Space Perspective flight is set to take place sometime in 2025, with planning for commercial voyages to ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

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 ...

Looking for a reason to put up a balloon and payload into near-space? Not that one’s necessary, but the Global Space Balloon Challenge has got a variety of good reasons for you to do so ...

The balloon space funeral service releases a balloon carrying the deceased’s ashes up toward outer space, putting a new twist on releasing balloons at a funeral as a symbolic gesture for a ...

A judge authorized Space Perspective's eviction from Space Coast Regional Airport on Thursday, and the financially strapped high-altitude balloon tourism company is expediting the involvement of ...

Space Perspective’s high hopes of launching tourists in a balloon to the edge of Earth’s orbit are not yet fully deflated — despite financial issues and job cuts at its Titusville headquarters.

The Space Minor has designed a special program that allows any student in the Space Minor an opportunity to build a balloon payload and launch it to the edge of space! Students are challenged to ...