The billionaire British entrepreneur previously established world records in 1987 and 1991, for his Transatlantic and Transpacific journeys in a hot air balloon, respectively. In October, Space ...

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 ...

But [Becky] shows how to make a hot air balloon using nothing but tape and ... It doesn’t seem likely that you are going to reach space with it either.

Although the exact launch date has not been set, the company has successfully conducted uncrewed test flights, demonstrating the balloon’s capability to reach high altitudes. The space balloon ...

Set up in 2019 by Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, the outfit recently unveiled its new Spaceship Neptune capsule, a nine-seater craft designed to lift a crew of nine into the upper stratosphere, ...

Space Perspective, a Richard Branson-backed startup that wants to take tourists to the stratosphere in a balloon, furloughed almost all of its workforce late last year after running low on cash.