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World View Balloon Aims to Give You an Outer-Space View for $75,000

Source: NBC News By: Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News A new venture headed by veteran space entrepreneurs plans to send tourists on a balloon up to an altitude of 19 miles, to give them the kind of spacey view that … Continue reading

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Zero2Infinity, a New Way for Space Tourism

Source: Space Safety Magazine By Matteo Emanuelli During the annual Space Generation Congress held in Beijing from the 19th to 21st of September by the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), Space Safety Magazine met Lluc Palerm, a young engineer and … Continue reading

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Japan sets new balloon altitude record: 53.7 kms

Source: stratocat.com.ar The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that they managed to break the current high altitude record for unmanned balloon flight, which stood unbeaten for eleven years.

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Second and Largest Stratospheric Balloon launched from Timmins, Ontario

Source : Canadian Space Agency Following a favorable weather briefing, the go-ahead was given for a launch shortly after midnight Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)  on Saturday, September 14, 2013.

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High-altitude balloon launched from Timmins, Ont., lands in Quebec

Source: ctvnews.ca The Canadian Space Agency says the first stratospheric balloon successfully launched in Canada has landed in northwestern Quebec.

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