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For $75,000, You Can Take A Balloon Ride To The Edge Of Space
The ride won't earn passengers their NASA credentials - outer space is generally considered to begi…
Caroline Moss
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For $75,000, You Can Take A Balloon Ride To The Edge Of Space
The ride won't earn passengers their NASA credentials - outer space is generally considered to begi…
Caroline Moss
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A company that wants to balloon travelers into the stratosphere is launching a KFC chicken 'space sandwich'
The chicken will launch from Tucson, Arizona, attached to the end of a high-altitude balloon. Altho…
Dave Mosher
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This balloon could float passengers 20 miles into the sky for $75,000
This 5-hour joy ride will include cocktails, stunning views of the stars, the blackness of space, a…
Julia Calderone
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The balloon that could take you to 'the edge of space' for $75,000 just got a little more real
In a statement, World View announced January 19 that Arizona's Pima County voted to go in on a publ…
Julia Calderone
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A new spaceship-on-a-balloon startup wants to float you high enough to see Earth's curvature and the darkness of space for roughly $125,000 per ticket
Space Perspective's founders, Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, think the startup may earn $500 mil…
Dave Mosher
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This Company Is One Step Closer To Flying Us To Space In A Balloon
The balloon technology World View used typically only goes up to 30,000 feet in the air, so this wa…
Rebecca Borison
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'Edge of space' tourism company World View just flew a balloon two times higher than we ever have before
On February 20, the company operated a parafoil - a massive, rectangular parachute - more than 19 m…
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You can now book an Uber hot-air balloon in Turkey for $159
This isn't the only way that Uber's expanding its offerings beyond ride-hailing. The app already al…
Kai Xiang Teo
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I lost my daughter at Disney World and was terrified. A simple tip helped me find her quickly, and I recommend it to all parents.
A mother lost her child at Disney World for a few seconds, which scared her. She now recommends tyi…
Victoria Marie Lees
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Seeing This Spectacular Sunrise From A Hot Air Balloon At The Edge Of Space Costs $75,000
World View, a commercial balloon spaceflight company, released footage from a recent flight showing…
Devan Joseph
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A hot air balloon made an emergency landing on a highway in Vermont after it stalled in flight
Five people were taking a sunset ride on the hot air balloon in Vermont when it stalled and was for…
Jyoti Mann
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An Arizona balloon company is working on a technology to make space satellites obsolete. Here's a rare look inside their giant factory.
"It's going to change everything," Ron Garan, a retired NASA astronaut and fighter pilot who works …
Dave Mosher
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Spy balloons that can see a phone in your hand will soon fly over North America. Here's how World View's technology works and what else its new CEO has planned.
That, in a nutshell, is the major new leg of business planned by the Tucson-based startup, called W…
Dave Mosher
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Drones And Hot-Air Balloons Won't Mix In New Mexico
"Safety is the top priority for Balloon Fiesta," they said in a statement. "Until firm regulations …
Matthew DeBord and Reuters
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7 things guests should never do at Disney World, from a longtime Imagineer
I helped design and improve the Disney theme parks for years as an Imagineer, and there are a few t…
Gabriella Sorrento
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I was a Disney Imagineer for 8 years. Here are 7 things guests should never do in the parks.
I helped design and improve the Disney theme parks for years as an Imagineer, and there are a few t…
Gabriella Sorrento
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15 majestic images from the world's largest hot air balloon festival
Though the weather was warm and pleasant for spectators, cyclone-like winds above forced the cancel…